Is it safe?
Can ASTE take a bad year?
Astec Industries, Inc. carries $316M of net debt at 3.21× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$316M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.21×
Net debt / EBITDA · −1.27× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.44
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 2.28×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $393M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $77M
- Net debt
- $316M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $99M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $54M
- Debt / equity
- 0.58×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.99×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- −32%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
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