NWNNorthwest Natural Holding Company
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$225K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -46% · now 14% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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 NWN take a bad year?
Northwest Natural Holding Company carries $2.60B of net debt at 5.56× 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
- 5.56×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.70× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.68
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $66M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.62B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $24M
- Net debt
- $2.60B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $467M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $295M
- Debt / equity
- 1.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.62×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 20%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- 14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Gas
Ranks #7 of 11 by RyuScore