TASKTaskUs, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 18% 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 TASK take a bad year?
TaskUs, Inc. carries $312M of net debt at 1.78× 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
- 1.78×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.45× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 6.19×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 55%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $492M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $180M
- Net debt
- $312M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $175M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $144M
- Debt / equity
- 1.64×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 55%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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