Is it safe?
Can AVTR take a bad year?
Avantor, Inc. carries $3.54B of net debt at 29.1× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$3.54B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 29.1×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.54× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.46
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.82B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $279M
- Net debt
- $3.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $121M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$294M
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 31.4×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −83%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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