Is it safe?
Can AVGO take a bad year?
Broadcom carries $45.3B of net debt at 1.29× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$45.3B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.29×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.52× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 13.14
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $64.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $19.6B
- Net debt
- $45.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $35.2B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $32.7B
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.85×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 53%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Semiconductors
Ranks #12 of 48 by Smart Score