Is it safe?
Can SHEL take a bad year?
Shell plc carries $43.0B of net debt at 0.55× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$43.0B
Net debt · as at Q2 2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.55×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.55× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 11.5×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 23%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2025
- $75.7B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $32.7B
- Net debt
- $43.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $78.3B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $52.8B
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.97×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −67%
- Below its 52-week high
- −2.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Oil & Gas Integrated
Ranks #7 of 13 by Smart Score