Is it safe?
Can CCO take a bad year?
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. carries $4.92B of net debt at 10.3× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.92B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.3×
Net debt / EBITDA · 10.8× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- -1.69
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.77×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.11B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $182M
- Net debt
- $4.92B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $479M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $305M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 10.7×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 49%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −93%
- Below its 52-week high
- −1.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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