DISWalt Disney Company (The)
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.5M, 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 -61% · now 7% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Sep 27, 2025.
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 DIS take a bad year?
Walt Disney Company (The) carries $40.9B of net debt at 1.72× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.72×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.61× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.45
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 9.97×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $46.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.18B
- Net debt
- $40.9B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $23.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $18.2B
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.94×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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