RCIRogers Communications Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -57% · now 26% 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 RCI take a bad year?
Rogers Communications Inc. carries $39.7B of net debt at 2.72× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.72×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.09× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 4.81×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 26%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $41.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.34B
- Net debt
- $39.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $14.6B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $9.82B
- Debt / equity
- 1.69×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −57%
- Below its 52-week high
- 26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.