UTLUnitil Corporation
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (BBB) and steady price behavior.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -48% · now 6% 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 UTL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in UTL's price history on file is −48%; it is 6.5% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Cash runway
- 0.2 years
Cash runway · burning $11M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 22%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
Worst drawdown on file · −6.5% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $956M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $9.2M
- Net debt
- $947M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $113M
- Debt / equity
- 1.49×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- 6.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.