VITLVital Farms, Inc.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -84% · now 79% 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 VITL take a bad year?
Vital Farms, Inc. carries $8.8M of net debt at 0.89× 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
- 0.89×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Cash runway
- 0.2 years
Cash runway · burning $32M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 58%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $30M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $21M
- Net debt
- $8.8M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $9.8M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $331K
- Debt / equity
- 0.11×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.05×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −84%
- Below its 52-week high
- 79%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.