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Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. carries $3.50B of net debt at 3.86× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.50B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.86×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.40× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.50
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 4.25×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.53B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $28M
- Net debt
- $3.50B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $906M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $820M
- Debt / equity
- 0.90×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.89×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −66%
- Below its 52-week high
- −19%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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