VSATViasat, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: big price swings.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$21.8M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -93% · now 17% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Mar 31, 2026.
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 VSAT take a bad year?
Viasat, Inc. carries $4.71B of net debt at 4.19× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.19×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.79× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.91
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.32×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $6.44B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.74B
- Net debt
- $4.71B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.12B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $109M
- Debt / equity
- 1.39×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.74×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 86%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −93%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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