Is it safe?
Can BRKR take a bad year?
Bruker Corporation carries $1.54B of net debt at 5.60× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.54B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.60×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.60× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.77
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 0.78×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.67B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $133M
- Net debt
- $1.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $275M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $47M
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.08×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 53%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- 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.