UMCUnited Microelectronics Corporation
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$524.7M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -54% · now 18% 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 UMC take a bad year?
United Microelectronics Corporation holds $159.0B 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
- 29.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 50%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2024
- $19.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $178.5B
- Net cash
- $159.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $96.9B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $51.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.05×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.20×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 50%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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