SKYWSkyWest, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$12.9M, 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 -82% · now 17% 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 SKYW take a bad year?
SkyWest, Inc. carries $1.70B of net debt at 1.77× 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
- 1.77×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.85× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 5.87×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 38%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.30B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $601M
- Net debt
- $1.70B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $955M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $588M
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.40×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −82%
- Below its 52-week high
- 17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.