VSTSVestis Corporation
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: insiders buying, but big price swings.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net buyers (+$1.0M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -82% · now 14% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Oct 3, 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 VSTS take a bad year?
Vestis Corporation carries $1.03B of net debt at 4.36× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.36×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.16× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.71
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 1.24×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $1.09B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $58M
- Net debt
- $1.03B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $236M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $98M
- Debt / equity
- 1.24×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.61×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 61%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −82%
- Below its 52-week high
- 14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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