PPLIPeople Incorporated
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 -78% · now 12% below its 52-week high.
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 PPLI take a bad year?
The deepest fall in PPLI's price history on file is −78%; it is 12% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Altman Z-score
- 1.13
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.41B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.11B
- Net debt
- $302M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$130M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$188M
- Debt / equity
- 0.28×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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