BKHBlack Hills Corporation
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -40% · now at/near 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 BKH take a bad year?
The deepest fall in BKH's price history on file is −40%; it is 0.56% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 1.06
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.2 years
Cash runway · burning $76M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 21%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.49B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $72M
- Net debt
- $4.42B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $549M
- Debt / equity
- 1.14×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 21%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −40%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.56%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Gas
Ranks #6 of 11 by RyuScore