FERFerrovial N.V.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: heavy debt (BB) and typical volatility.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -39% · now 33% 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 FER take a bad year?
Ferrovial N.V. carries $7.23B of net debt at 3.71× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.16× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.95×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · noticeably more jumpy than the market
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $11.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.27B
- Net debt
- $7.23B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.95B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.46B
- Debt / equity
- 1.95×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.91×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
- Below its 52-week high
- 33%
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.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #14 of 25 by RyuScore