QUADQuad/Graphics, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (B) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 13% 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 QUAD take a bad year?
The deepest fall in QUAD's price history on file is −92%; it is 13% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 1.98×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 52%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
Worst drawdown on file · −13% today
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $433M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $7.0M
- Net debt
- $426M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $95M
- Debt / equity
- 3.42×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 52%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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