GTEGran Tierra Energy Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (B) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 5% 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 GTE take a bad year?
The deepest fall in GTE's price history on file is −95%; it is 4.7% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 69%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
Worst drawdown on file · −4.7% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $598M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $127M
- Net debt
- $471M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$317M
- Debt / equity
- 4.52×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 69%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
- Below its 52-week high
- 4.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.