NVDANVIDIA Corporation
Is it safe?
One accounting flag to check: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA), but an accounting pattern worth a look (common in fast growers).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Several accounting flags in the manipulation-likely range 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 (-$967.6M, 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.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -66% · now 4% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 25, 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 NVDA take a bad year?
NVIDIA Corporation carries $10.9B of net debt at 0.06× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.06×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.50× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 68.05
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 427×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2027
- $33.4B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $22.4B
- Net debt
- $10.9B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $199.7B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $197.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.15×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.17×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 44%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −66%
- Below its 52-week high
- 4.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.