BHPBHP Group Limited
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$315K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
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 12% 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 BHP take a bad year?
BHP Group Limited carries $9.09B of net debt at 0.36× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.36×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.21× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 11.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 32%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $21.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $12.5B
- Net debt
- $9.09B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $25.0B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $19.5B
- Debt / equity
- 0.45×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.86×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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