Is it safe?
Can BWXT take a bad year?
BWX Technologies, Inc. carries $1.51B of net debt at 2.85× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.51B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.85×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.41× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 5.84
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 10.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.02B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $512M
- Net debt
- $1.51B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $529M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $415M
- Debt / equity
- 1.58×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.82×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −36%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #12 of 48 by Smart Score