VVVValvoline Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but heavy debt (B).
Financially healthy, low 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).
Mixed fundamental signals 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 (-$75K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -62% · now 25% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Sep 30, 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 VVV take a bad year?
The deepest fall in VVV's price history on file is −62%; it is 25% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 2.52
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 3.84×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 32%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $1.60B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $84M
- Net debt
- $1.52B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $301M
- Debt / equity
- 3.84×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −62%
- Below its 52-week high
- 25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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