VRSNVerisign
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
High fundamental quality Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$13.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -39% · now 2% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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 VRSN take a bad year?
The deepest fall in VRSN's price history on file is −39%; it is 2.0% below its high today.
Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · distress zone, the model puts this in the bankruptcy range
- Interest cover
- 15.3×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 28%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
Worst drawdown on file · −2.0% today
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.03B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.19B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.16B
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
- Below its 52-week high
- 2.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Infrastructure
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