GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -45% · now 13% 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 GOOG take a bad year?
Alphabet Inc. (Class C) holds $142.3B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 65.5×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 32%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $100.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $242.5B
- Net cash
- $142.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $166.1B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $147.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.16×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.60×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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