KBRKBR, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk 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.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -58% · now 28% 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 KBR take a bad year?
KBR, Inc. carries $2.24B of net debt at 2.49× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.49×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.51× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.48
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 4.96×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.55B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $312M
- Net debt
- $2.24B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $900M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $734M
- Debt / equity
- 1.56×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.84×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −58%
- Below its 52-week high
- 28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #3 of 25 by RyuScore