Is it safe?
Can ARMK take a bad year?
Aramark carries $5.63B of net debt at 4.05× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$5.63B
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.05×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.61× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 1.81×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 28%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $6.13B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $499M
- Net debt
- $5.63B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.39B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $871M
- Debt / equity
- 1.81×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.41×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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