RIORio Tinto Group
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -37% · now 15% 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 RIO take a bad year?
Rio Tinto Group carries $12.5B of net debt at 0.80× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.80×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.22× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 14.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 28%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $21.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $9.45B
- Net debt
- $12.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $15.5B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $14.9B
- Debt / equity
- 0.35×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.41×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- 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.
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