Is it safe?
Can BLCO take a bad year?
Bausch + Lomb Corporation carries $4.77B of net debt at 7.40× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.77B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.40×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.16× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 0.54×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 39%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.04B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $268M
- Net debt
- $4.77B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $645M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $229M
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 7.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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