Is it safe?
Can BDC take a bad year?
Belden Inc. carries $988M of net debt at 2.35× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$988M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.35×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.45× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.08
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.98×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.26B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $272M
- Net debt
- $988M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $420M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $321M
- Debt / equity
- 0.98×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.00×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −68%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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