NGGNational Grid plc

$80.55

Is it safe?

Can NGG take a bad year?

National Grid plc carries $40.6B of net debt at 5.71× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.

$40.6B

Net debt · as at FY2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy

Net debt / EBITDA
5.71×

Net debt / EBITDA · 6.55× a year ago · the load is coming down

Cash runway
3.9 years

Cash runway · burning $447M a quarter at the current rate

Annualised volatility
22%

Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself

Details
Total debtFY2025
$47.5B
Cash and short-term investments
$6.93B
Net debt
$40.6B
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$7.11B
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$4.93B
Debt / equity
1.26×
Total debt / EBITDA
6.69×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
22%
Worst drawdown on file
−39%
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.