GLNGGolar LNG Limited
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (BBB) and typical volatility.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -86% · now 16% below its 52-week high.
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 GLNG take a bad year?
The deepest fall in GLNG's price history on file is −86%; it is 16% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 2.32×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 36%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −86%
Worst drawdown on file · −16% today
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $2.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.15B
- Net debt
- $1.61B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $76M
- Debt / equity
- 1.50×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 36%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −86%
- 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.