Is it safe?
Can BLDR take a bad year?
Builders FirstSource carries $4.54B of net debt at 4.26× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.54B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.26×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.37× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.56
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.16×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.64B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $98M
- Net debt
- $4.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.07B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $618M
- Debt / equity
- 1.16×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.35×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- −54%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #17 of 18 by Smart Score