VGNTVersigent PLC
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$10.1M, 90 days to Oct 22, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -21% · now 18% 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 VGNT take a bad year?
Versigent PLC carries $1.82B of net debt as at Q2 2026.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Debt / equity
- 28.0×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 57%
Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 3 times the market's own swing
- Worst drawdown on file
- −21%
Worst drawdown on file · −18% today
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.38B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $554M
- Net debt
- $1.82B
- Debt / equity
- 28.0×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 57%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −21%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
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.
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