Is it safe?
Can VERX take a bad year?
Vertex, Inc. carries $86M of net debt at 2.06× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$86M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.06×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.34× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.57
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 1.37×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $338M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $252M
- Net debt
- $86M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $42M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$13M
- Debt / equity
- 1.37×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 8.13×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 55%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −82%
- Below its 52-week high
- −49%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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