ASXASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$4.1M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 2% 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 ASX take a bad year?
ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. carries $143.4B of net debt at 1.21× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.21×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.83× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 4.2 years
Cash runway · burning $5.60B a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 47%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $237.6B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $94.2B
- Net debt
- $143.4B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $118.9B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $51.4B
- Debt / equity
- 0.69×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.00×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −53%
- Below its 52-week high
- 2.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.