WMSAdvanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and clean books.
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.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -54% · now 28% 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 WMS take a bad year?
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. carries $1.45B of net debt at 1.62× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.62×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.75× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 4.62
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.90×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $1.61B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $162M
- Net debt
- $1.45B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $896M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $668M
- Debt / equity
- 0.90×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- 28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Building Products & Equipment
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