DAVEDave Inc.

$354.54+68% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.

1 good, 1 to watch, 4 without data
Credit gradeAAderived · Jun 30, 2026

Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk87% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -99% · now 20% below its 52-week high.

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.

Volatilitybottom 8% of the market
Max drawdownbottom 1% of the market

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 DAVE take a bad year?

Dave Inc. carries $16M of net debt at 0.07× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.

$16M

Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable

Net debt / EBITDA
0.07×

Net debt / EBITDA · 0.12× a year ago · the load is coming down

Interest cover
30.6×

Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over

Annualised volatility
87%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 5 times the market's own swing

Details›
Total debtQ2 2026
$268M
Cash and short-term investments
$253M
Net debt
$16M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$230M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$222M
Debt / equity
1.29×
Total debt / EBITDA
1.17×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
87%
Worst drawdown on file
−99%
Below its 52-week high
20%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

The balance sheet

What it owes against what it owns, and how close that comes to trouble.

How far can it fall?

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and what each unit of risk has paid.