MDUMDU Resources Group, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet 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.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -51% · now 17% 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 MDU take a bad year?
MDU Resources Group, Inc. carries $2.53B of net debt at 4.83× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.83×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.46× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.12
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $97M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.58B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $46M
- Net debt
- $2.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $524M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $311M
- Debt / equity
- 0.88×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.92×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Gas
Ranks #11 of 11 by RyuScore