XOMExxon Mobil Corporation
Is it safe?
No red flags in what's measurable: comfortable debt (AA) and steady price behavior.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -61% · now at/near 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 XOM take a bad year?
Exxon Mobil Corporation carries $39.2B of net debt at 0.62× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.62×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.28× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 52.9×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $47.7B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $8.44B
- Net debt
- $39.2B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $63.7B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $36.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.19×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.79%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Oil & Gas Integrated
Ranks #4 of 12 by RyuScore