SNNSmith & Nephew plc
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -55% · now 16% 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 SNN take a bad year?
Smith & Nephew plc carries $2.64B of net debt as at FY2025.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 5.67×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 30%
Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
Worst drawdown on file · −16% today
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $3.19B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $557M
- Net debt
- $2.64B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $794M
- Debt / equity
- 0.60×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- Below its 52-week high
- 16%
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.