ULUnilever PLC
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and steady price behavior.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -30% · now 15% 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 UL take a bad year?
Unilever PLC carries $21.0B of net debt at 2.03× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.03×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.10× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 8.83×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 22%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $26.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.06B
- Net debt
- $21.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $10.3B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $9.04B
- Debt / equity
- 1.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.52×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −30%
- 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.
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