ALVOAlvotech
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -83% · now 36% 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 ALVO take a bad year?
Alvotech carries $1.13B of net debt at 9.71× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 9.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 10.1× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Cash runway
- 1.5 years
Cash runway · burning $29M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 65%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $1.30B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $172M
- Net debt
- $1.13B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $116M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $78M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 11.2×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 65%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −83%
- Below its 52-week high
- 36%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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