VLGEAVillage Super Market, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -47% · now 7% 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 VLGEA take a bad year?
Village Super Market, Inc. holds $77M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 19.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $54M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $131M
- Net cash
- $77M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $100M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $64M
- Debt / equity
- 0.10×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.54×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −47%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.