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Avient Corporation carries $1.50B of net debt at 3.07× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.50B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.07×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.87× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.76
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.80×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.92B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $428M
- Net debt
- $1.50B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $487M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $299M
- Debt / equity
- 0.80×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.95×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −77%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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