IQVIQVIA
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: heavy debt (BB).
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$29.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 6% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
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 IQV take a bad year?
IQVIA carries $13.7B of net debt at 4.08× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.08×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.77× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.85
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 2.91×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $15.8B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.10B
- Net debt
- $13.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.37B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.20B
- Debt / equity
- 2.54×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.70×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- 5.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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