ABEVAmbev S.A.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.6M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -72% · now 6% 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 ABEV take a bad year?
Ambev S.A. holds $24.9B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 5.29×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 31%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $4.55B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $29.4B
- Net cash
- $24.9B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $29.2B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $23.3B
- Debt / equity
- 0.05×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.16×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.