Is it safe?
Can ALKS take a bad year?
Alkermes plc carries $998M of net debt at 4.64× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$998M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.64×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 5.79×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.51B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $512M
- Net debt
- $998M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $215M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $192M
- Debt / equity
- 0.86×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 7.02×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −81%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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