WPPWPP plc
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -80% · now 8% 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 WPP take a bad year?
The deepest fall in WPP's price history on file is −80%; it is 7.8% below its high today.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 1.09×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 47%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
Worst drawdown on file · −7.8% today
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $5.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.16B
- Net debt
- $2.60B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $382M
- Debt / equity
- 2.27×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.