IDAIDACORP, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet 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.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -34% · now 11% 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 IDA take a bad year?
IDACORP, Inc. carries $3.35B of net debt at 5.50× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.50×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.92× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.34
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.4 years
Cash runway · burning $144M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $3.56B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $216M
- Net debt
- $3.35B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $609M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $354M
- Debt / equity
- 1.00×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.86×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 18%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −34%
- Below its 52-week high
- 11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
Ranks #13 of 15 by RyuScore