Is it safe?
Can CBT take a bad year?
Cabot Corporation carries $1.05B of net debt at 1.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.05B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.43×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.43× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.73
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.49×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.30B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $252M
- Net debt
- $1.05B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $731M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $562M
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.78×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −67%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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