VIVTelefônica Brasil S.A.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -48% · now 26% 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 VIV take a bad year?
Telefônica Brasil S.A. carries $13.3B of net debt at 0.54× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.54×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.61× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 2.23×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 30%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $20.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $7.03B
- Net debt
- $13.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $24.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $9.86B
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.82×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- 26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.