AMRZAmrize Ltd
Is it safe?
No red flags in what's measurable: insiders buying and comfortable debt (AA).
Multiple insiders bought with their own money (net +$2.6M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026).
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -44% · now 44% 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 AMRZ take a bad year?
Amrize Ltd carries $5.28B of net debt at 1.95× 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
- 1.95×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.12× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 5.28×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 36%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $6.00B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $729M
- Net debt
- $5.28B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.70B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.89B
- Debt / equity
- 0.47×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.22×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 36%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- 45%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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