TLNTalen Energy Corporation
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -37% · now 15% 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 TLN take a bad year?
Talen Energy Corporation carries $9.34B of net debt at 22.3× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 22.3×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.89× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.38
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.18×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $9.57B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $231M
- Net debt
- $9.34B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $418M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $88M
- Debt / equity
- 5.92×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 22.9×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 59%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- Below its 52-week high
- 15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.