KSSKohl's Corporation
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: clean books and comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
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 (-$760K, 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.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -89% · now 16% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 31, 2026.
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 KSS take a bad year?
Kohl's Corporation carries $504M of net debt at 0.39× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.39×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.11× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.69
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.32×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.32B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $821M
- Net debt
- $504M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.29B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $592M
- Debt / equity
- 0.32×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.03×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 82%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −89%
- Below its 52-week high
- 16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.