MUSAMurphy USA Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$605K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -36% · now 15% 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 MUSA take a bad year?
Murphy USA Inc. carries $2.01B of net debt at 1.66× 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
- 1.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.04× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 7.94×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.19B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $175M
- Net debt
- $2.01B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.21B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $921M
- Debt / equity
- 2.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −36%
- Below its 52-week high
- 15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.