$80.99+36% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: heavy debt (BB) and typical volatility.

1 to watch, 1 neutral, 4 without data
Credit gradeBBderived · Dec 31, 2020

Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk37% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -84% · now at/near 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 JOYY take a bad year?

JOYY Inc. holds $13.8B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.

$13.8B

Net cash

Net debt / EBITDA
net cash

Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings

Interest cover
none

Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from

Annualised volatility
37%

Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market

Details›
Total debtFY2020
$734M
Cash and short-term investments
$14.6B
Net cash
$13.8B
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
−$2.29B
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$2.82B
Debt / equity
0.02×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
37%
Worst drawdown on file
−84%
Below its 52-week high
0.48%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.