DTEDTE Energy
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: steady price behavior, but heavy debt (BB).
Insiders were net sellers (-$679K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -42% · now 16% 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 DTE take a bad year?
DTE Energy carries $26.5B of net debt at 6.56× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.56×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.86× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 1.97×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 18%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $26.7B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $238M
- Net debt
- $26.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.03B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.16B
- Debt / equity
- 2.17×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.62×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 18%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −42%
- Below its 52-week high
- 16%
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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