NOANorth American Construction Group Ltd.

$11.39-23% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.

2 neutral, 4 without data
Credit gradeAderived · Dec 31, 2025

Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk45% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -68% · now 32% 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 NOA take a bad year?

North American Construction Group Ltd. carries $810M of net debt at 2.48× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.

$810M

Net debt · as at FY2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable

Net debt / EBITDA
2.48×

Net debt / EBITDA · 2.15× a year ago · the load is going up

Interest cover
1.85×

Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill

Annualised volatility
45%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 3 times the market's own swing

Details›
Total debtFY2025
$910M
Cash and short-term investments
$100M
Net debt
$810M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$326M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$109M
Debt / equity
1.99×
Total debt / EBITDA
2.79×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
45%
Worst drawdown on file
−68%
Below its 52-week high
32%

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.