STNEStoneCo Ltd.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$208K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 22% 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 STNE take a bad year?
The deepest fall in STNE's price history on file is −92%; it is 22% below its high today.
Net debt · as at FY2024 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Cash runway
- 1.2 years
Cash runway · burning $1.10B a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 52%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
Worst drawdown on file · −22% today
Details›
- Total debtFY2024
- $17.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.23B
- Net debt
- $11.8B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$350M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$1.02B
- Debt / equity
- 1.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 52%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- 22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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