KROKronos Worldwide, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -78% · now 12% 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 KRO take a bad year?
The deepest fall in KRO's price history on file is −78%; it is 12% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 54%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
Worst drawdown on file · −12% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $570M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $27M
- Net debt
- $543M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$32M
- Debt / equity
- 0.76×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 54%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.