Is it safe?
Can CHD take a bad year?
Church & Dwight carries $1.70B of net debt at 1.29× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.70B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.29×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.09× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 5.02
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 11.2×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.21B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $503M
- Net debt
- $1.70B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.32B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.07B
- Debt / equity
- 0.53×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.67×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −32%
- Below its 52-week high
- −2.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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