AUAngloGold Ashanti plc
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -68% · now 24% 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 AU take a bad year?
AngloGold Ashanti plc holds $842M 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
- Interest cover
- 57.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 55%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $2.06B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.90B
- Net cash
- $842M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $7.85B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $6.66B
- Debt / equity
- 0.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.26×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 55%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −68%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.