Is it safe?
Can VRSK take a bad year?
Verisk Analytics carries $3.95B of net debt at 2.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.95B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.43×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.74× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 5.55
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.68×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.48B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $525M
- Net debt
- $3.95B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.63B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.37B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- −31%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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