Is it safe?
Can CF take a bad year?
CF Industries carries $1.17B of net debt at 0.33× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.17B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.33×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.56× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.12
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 17.3×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.22B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.04B
- Net debt
- $1.17B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.61B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.71B
- Debt / equity
- 0.60×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.89×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Agricultural Inputs
Ranks #1 of 7 by Smart Score