Is it safe?
Can CCI take a bad year?
Crown Castle carries $17.2B of net debt at 6.46× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$17.2B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.46×
Net debt / EBITDA · 8.50× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 2.10×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 27%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $18.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.04B
- Net debt
- $17.2B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.66B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.98B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.85×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- −25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT - Specialty
Ranks #12 of 13 by Smart Score