NIQNIQ Global Intelligence plc
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -60% · 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 NIQ take a bad year?
NIQ Global Intelligence plc carries $3.13B of net debt at 4.33× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.33×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.88× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 3.91×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 76%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.55B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $417M
- Net debt
- $3.13B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $724M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $85M
- Debt / equity
- 3.91×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.90×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 76%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −60%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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