Is it safe?
Can AYI take a bad year?
Acuity Inc. carries $285M of net debt at 0.34× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$285M
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.34×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.96× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 5.99
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 18.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $697M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $412M
- Net debt
- $285M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $832M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $667M
- Debt / equity
- 0.24×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.84×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 35%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −74%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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