APDAir Products
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -32% · now 9% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
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 APD take a bad year?
Air Products holds $84M 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
- Altman Z-score
- 2.44
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $896M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $981M
- Net cash
- $84M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $951M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$593M
- Debt / equity
- 0.07×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.94×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −32%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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