SWKStanley Black & Decker
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: clean books and quality strong.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
High fundamental quality Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$105K, 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 -71% · now 15% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 3, 2026.
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 SWK take a bad year?
Stanley Black & Decker carries $4.17B of net debt at 3.10× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.10×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.17× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 1.80×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 41%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $592M
- Net debt
- $4.17B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.34B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $847M
- Debt / equity
- 0.53×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.54×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −71%
- Below its 52-week high
- 15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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