TGBTaseko Mines Limited
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -91% · now 7% 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 TGB take a bad year?
Taseko Mines Limited carries $557M of net debt at 4.54× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.54×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.36× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 0.8 years
Cash runway · burning $56M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 66%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $747M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $190M
- Net debt
- $557M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $123M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $20M
- Debt / equity
- 0.96×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.09×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 66%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.