WPPWPP plc
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -80% · now 4% 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 WPP take a bad year?
WPP plc carries $2.60B of net debt as at FY2025.
Net debt · as at FY2025 · debt less the cash on hand
- Interest cover
- 1.09×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 48%
Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 3 times the market's own swing
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
Worst drawdown on file · −3.7% today
Details›
- Total debtFY2025
- $5.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.16B
- Net debt
- $2.60B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $382M
- Debt / equity
- 2.27×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 48%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- 3.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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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