SYYSysco Corporation
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. No accounting flags, quality moderate.
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).
Mixed fundamental signals 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 (-$1.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 14% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 28, 2025.
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 SYY take a bad year?
Sysco Corporation carries $11.7B of net debt at 2.88× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.88×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.03× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 5.07×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 24%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $13.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.80B
- Net debt
- $11.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.07B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.09B
- Debt / equity
- 5.07×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.