WDSWoodside Energy Group Ltd
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 -66% · now 9% 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 WDS take a bad year?
Woodside Energy Group Ltd carries $6.02B of net debt at 0.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 13.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 34%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $12.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.94B
- Net debt
- $6.02B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $8.93B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.89B
- Debt / equity
- 0.33×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.34×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −66%
- Below its 52-week high
- 8.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.