IMOSChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -62% · now 7% 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 IMOS take a bad year?
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. holds $15.5B 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
- 4.57×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 64%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtFY2024
- $13.8B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $29.2B
- Net cash
- $15.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $6.13B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.27B
- Debt / equity
- 0.55×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.24×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 64%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −62%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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