AERAerCap Holdings N.V.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, heavy debt (BB), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$311K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -76% · now 7% 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 AER take a bad year?
AerCap Holdings N.V. carries $43.4B of net debt at 7.39× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.39×
Net debt / EBITDA · 29.4× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 1.64×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2025
- $46.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.70B
- Net debt
- $43.4B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $5.87B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.28B
- Debt / equity
- 2.57×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 7.85×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −76%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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