WFRDWeatherford International plc
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$2.2M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -71% · now 30% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
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 WFRD take a bad year?
Weatherford International plc carries $380M of net debt at 0.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.43×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.58× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 49%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.48B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.10B
- Net debt
- $380M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $889M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $607M
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.67×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 49%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −71%
- Below its 52-week high
- 30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Oil & Gas Equipment & Services
Ranks #5 of 29 by RyuScore