CPKChesapeake Utilities 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 -39% · now 7% 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 CPK take a bad year?
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation carries $1.69B of net debt at 4.65× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.65×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.75× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.31
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.0 years
Cash runway · burning $52M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.69B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $400K
- Net debt
- $1.69B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $363M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $271M
- Debt / equity
- 1.01×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.65×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 21%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Gas
Ranks #2 of 11 by RyuScore