Is it safe?
Can CBRL take a bad year?
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. carries $461M of net debt at 4.52× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$461M
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.52×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.49× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.20
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.04×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ3 2026
- $487M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $26M
- Net debt
- $461M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $102M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$22M
- Debt / equity
- 1.04×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.77×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 57%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −83%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.