Is it safe?
Can AVB take a bad year?
AvalonBay Communities carries $10.0B of net debt at 3.37× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$10.0B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.37×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.03× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 7.55×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 22%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $10.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $121M
- Net debt
- $10.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.97B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.04B
- Debt / equity
- 0.88×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.41×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −47%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT - Residential
Ranks #4 of 10 by Smart Score