PRMBPrimo Brands Corporation
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$992.8M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -59% · now 24% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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 PRMB take a bad year?
Primo Brands Corporation carries $4.79B of net debt at 4.34× 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
- 4.34×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.85× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.20
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.50×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $5.16B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $367M
- Net debt
- $4.79B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.10B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $483M
- Debt / equity
- 1.73×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −59%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.