BKRBaker Hughes
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -78% · now 18% 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 BKR take a bad year?
The deepest fall in BKR's price history on file is −78%; it is 18% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 35%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
Worst drawdown on file · −18% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $16.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $15.7B
- Net debt
- $526M
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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