PRTHPriority Technology Holdings, Inc.
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 -88% · now at/near 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 PRTH take a bad year?
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. carries $928M of net debt at 4.38× 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
- 4.38×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.41× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 1.59×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 71%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.05B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $120M
- Net debt
- $928M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $212M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $138M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.95×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 71%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #22 of 80 by RyuScore