GEHCGE HealthCare
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk 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.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -37% · now 25% 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 GEHC take a bad year?
GE HealthCare carries $7.88B of net debt at 2.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.77× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.79
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 6.23×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $10.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.26B
- Net debt
- $7.88B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.95B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.65B
- Debt / equity
- 0.95×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- Below its 52-week high
- 25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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