RTORentokil Initial plc
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 -51% · now 41% 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 RTO take a bad year?
The deepest fall in RTO's price history on file is −51%; it is 41% below its high today.
Net debt · as at FY2024 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 2.79×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
Worst drawdown on file · −41% today
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- Total debtFY2024
- $3.66B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.03B
- Net debt
- $2.63B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $549M
- Debt / equity
- 0.87×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 41%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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