$83.42+52% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: heavy debt (BB) and typical volatility.

1 to watch, 1 neutral, 4 without data
Credit gradeBBderived · Dec 31, 2020

Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk36% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -84% · now at/near 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 JOYY take a bad year?

JOYY Inc. holds $13.8B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.

$13.8B

Net cash · as at FY2020 · 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
none

Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from

Annualised volatility
36%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · roughly twice as jumpy as the market

Details›
Total debtFY2020
$734M
Cash and short-term investments
$14.6B
Net cash
$13.8B
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
−$2.29B
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$2.82B
Debt / equity
0.02×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
36%
Worst drawdown on file
−84%
Below its 52-week high
1.8%

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.