ZIPZipRecruiter, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 27% 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 ZIP take a bad year?
ZipRecruiter, Inc. carries $79M of net debt at 5.85× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.85×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 0.05×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 79%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $253M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $174M
- Net debt
- $79M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $14M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.6M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 18.6×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 79%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
- Below its 52-week high
- 27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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