Is it safe?
Can WEC take a bad year?
WEC Energy Group carries $22.5B of net debt at 5.88× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$22.5B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.88×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.40× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.11
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.0 years
Cash runway · burning $344M a quarter at the current rate
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $22.6B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $50M
- Net debt
- $22.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.83B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.32B
- Debt / equity
- 1.55×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.89×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 17%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −32%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Ranks #22 of 37 by Smart Score