JBSSJohn B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -51% · now 24% below its 52-week high.
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 JBSS take a bad year?
John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. carries $82M of net debt at 0.70× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.70×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 36.7×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 31%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $83M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.1M
- Net debt
- $82M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $117M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $89M
- Debt / equity
- 0.22×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.71×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.