STMSTMicroelectronics N.V.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -67% · now 35% 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 STM take a bad year?
STMicroelectronics N.V. holds $1.69B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 3.18×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 56%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $2.13B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.82B
- Net cash
- $1.69B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.03B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $175M
- Debt / equity
- 0.12×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.05×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 56%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −67%
- Below its 52-week high
- 35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.