SLVMSylvamo Corporation
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -65% · now 40% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
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 SLVM take a bad year?
Sylvamo Corporation carries $697M of net debt at 1.97× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.97×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.21× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.47
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $2.8M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $884M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $187M
- Net debt
- $697M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $354M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $176M
- Debt / equity
- 0.93×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.50×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −65%
- Below its 52-week high
- 40%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.