SSLSasol Limited
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$895K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -97% · now at/near 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 SSL take a bad year?
Sasol Limited carries $79.9B of net debt at 2.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.43×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 1.99×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 58%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $120.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $41.0B
- Net debt
- $79.9B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $32.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $18.8B
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.