Is it safe?
Can AWI take a bad year?
Armstrong World Industries, Inc. carries $400M of net debt at 0.80× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$400M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.80×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.96× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 7.02
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 13.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $479M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $80M
- Net debt
- $400M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $499M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $427M
- Debt / equity
- 0.54×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.96×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- −12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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