Is it safe?
Can BKD take a bad year?
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. carries $4.04B of net debt at 10.6× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.04B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.6×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.56× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- -0.10
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Annualised volatility
- 43%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.31B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $270M
- Net debt
- $4.04B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $381M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $36M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 11.3×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 43%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
- Below its 52-week high
- −27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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