WSCWillScot Holdings Corporation
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain, quality weak, and heavy debt (B). Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-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).
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals 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.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -72% · now 44% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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 WSC take a bad year?
WillScot Holdings Corporation carries $3.48B of net debt at 14.2× 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
- 14.2×
Net debt / EBITDA · 7.69× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.64
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 3.84×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.50B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $18M
- Net debt
- $3.48B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $245M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $149M
- Debt / equity
- 3.84×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 14.3×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 51%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- 44%
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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Ranks #8 of 13 by RyuScore