IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch, no accounting flags, quality moderate.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
Mixed fundamental signals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -57% · now 4% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can IFF take a bad year?
International Flavors & Fragrances carries $5.18B of net debt at 3.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 20.6× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.29
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.41×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $5.75B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $569M
- Net debt
- $5.18B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.41B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $754M
- Debt / equity
- 0.41×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.08×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −57%
- Below its 52-week high
- 4.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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