YEXTYext, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (BBB) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -88% · now 23% below its 52-week high.
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 YEXT take a bad year?
Yext, Inc. carries $61M of net debt at 1.31× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.31×
Net debt / EBITDA · −3.60× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.26×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 50%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2027
- $148M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $87M
- Net debt
- $61M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $46M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $37M
- Debt / equity
- 4.14×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.18×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 50%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- 23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #30 of 80 by RyuScore