ALVAutoliv, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 17% 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 ALV take a bad year?
Autoliv, Inc. carries $1.66B of net debt at 1.15× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.15×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.23× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 9.85×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 29%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.04B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $377M
- Net debt
- $1.66B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.45B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.01B
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.41×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.