Is it safe?
Can BFS take a bad year?
Saul Centers, Inc. carries $1.59B of net debt at 6.12× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.59B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.12×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.00× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 2.70×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 20%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.60B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $9.3M
- Net debt
- $1.59B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $259M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $199M
- Debt / equity
- 5.29×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.16×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 20%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −59%
- Below its 52-week high
- −11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.