TFXTeleflex Incorporated
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -77% · now 12% 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 TFX take a bad year?
Teleflex Incorporated carries $2.48B of net debt at 12.9× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 12.9×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.10× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.07
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 0.39×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.81B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $327M
- Net debt
- $2.48B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $193M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $44M
- Debt / equity
- 0.97×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 14.6×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −77%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Medical Instruments & Supplies
Ranks #10 of 21 by RyuScore