CEPUCentral Puerto S.A.
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 -89% · now 30% 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 CEPU take a bad year?
Central Puerto S.A. holds $93.2B 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
- 1.15×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 58%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2024
- $150.8B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $244.0B
- Net cash
- $93.2B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $308.3B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $197.2B
- Debt / equity
- 0.08×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.49×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −89%
- Below its 52-week high
- 30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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