YORWThe York Water Company
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and steady price behavior.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -40% · now 10% 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 YORW take a bad year?
The York Water Company carries $189M of net debt at 4.21× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.21×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.22× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $3.5M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 22%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $190M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $555K
- Net debt
- $189M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $45M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $30M
- Debt / equity
- 0.65×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.22×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −40%
- Below its 52-week high
- 10%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.