SBSCompanhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo - SABESP
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 -62% · now 5% 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 SBS take a bad year?
The deepest fall in SBS's price history on file is −62%; it is 4.9% below its high today.
Net debt · as at FY2024 · debt less the cash on hand
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 35%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −62%
Worst drawdown on file · −4.9% today
Details›
- Total debtFY2024
- $25.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.68B
- Net debt
- $23.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −62%
- Below its 52-week high
- 4.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Water
Ranks #1 of 9 by RyuScore