GDGeneral Dynamics
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet, comfortable debt (AA), and steady price behavior.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$41.8M, 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.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 16% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 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 GD take a bad year?
General Dynamics carries $4.15B of net debt at 0.66× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.41× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.26
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $8.01B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.86B
- Net debt
- $4.15B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $6.32B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $5.51B
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.27×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- 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.
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