GOOGAlphabet Inc. (Class C)
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 -45% · now 20% 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 GOOG take a bad year?
Alphabet Inc. (Class C) holds $142.3B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash · as at Q2 2026 · cash and short-term investments less total debt
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 65.5×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 32%
Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $100.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $242.5B
- Net cash
- $142.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $166.1B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $147.6B
- Debt / equity
- 0.16×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.60×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- 20%
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.
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