MCKMcKesson Corporation
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$368K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -44% · now 6% 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 MCK take a bad year?
McKesson Corporation carries $4.57B of net debt at 0.63× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.63×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.06× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 23.6×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 29%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $9.73B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.16B
- Net debt
- $4.57B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $7.26B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $6.50B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.34×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- Below its 52-week high
- 5.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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