Is it safe?
Can BC take a bad year?
Brunswick Corporation carries $2.50B of net debt at 11.9× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.50B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 11.9×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.04× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.94
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.78B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $279M
- Net debt
- $2.50B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $211M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$47M
- Debt / equity
- 1.74×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 13.2×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.