JBSJBS N.V.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (BBB), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$2.5M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -36% · now 24% 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 JBS take a bad year?
JBS N.V. carries $16.5B of net debt at 2.36× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.36×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 2.79×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 34%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $21.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.57B
- Net debt
- $16.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $7.00B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $4.69B
- Debt / equity
- 2.21×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.01×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −36%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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