WSO-BWatsco, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -40% · now 29% 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 WSO-B take a bad year?
Watsco, Inc. holds $106M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 34%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $486M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $593M
- Net cash
- $106M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $762M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $718M
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.64×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −40%
- Below its 52-week high
- 29%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #4 of 17 by RyuScore