KELYAKelly Services, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: heavy debt (CCC) and typical volatility.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -72% · now 6% 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 KELYA take a bad year?
The deepest fall in KELYA's price history on file is −72%; it is 6.4% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Debt / equity
- 0.08×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 41%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
Worst drawdown on file · −6.4% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $78M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $24M
- Net debt
- $54M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$51M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$92M
- Debt / equity
- 0.08×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Staffing & Employment Services
Ranks #9 of 9 by RyuScore