SAIASaia, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -61% · now 31% 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 SAIA take a bad year?
Saia, Inc. carries $16M of net debt at 0.03× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.03×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.46× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 9.89
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 31.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $100M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $84M
- Net debt
- $16M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $628M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $375M
- Debt / equity
- 0.04×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.16×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 55%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 31%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.