EVOEvotec SE

$1.52-62% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.

1 good, 1 to watch, 4 without data
Credit gradeAAderived · Dec 31, 2025

Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk63% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 63% 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 EVO take a bad year?

Evotec SE holds $81M more cash than debt, and is burning $20M a quarter, about 5.4 years of cover.

$81M

Net cash · as at FY2025 · cash and short-term investments less total debt

Net debt / EBITDA
net cash

Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings

Cash runway
5+ years

Cash runway · burning $20M a quarter at the current rate

Annualised volatility
63%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 4 times the market's own swing

Details›
Total debtFY2025
$358M
Cash and short-term investments
$439M
Net cash
$81M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$43M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$56M
Debt / equity
0.44×
Total debt / EBITDA
8.27×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
63%
Worst drawdown on file
−95%
Below its 52-week high
63%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

The balance sheet

What it owes against what it owns, and how close that comes to trouble.

How far can it fall?

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and what each unit of risk has paid.