Is it safe?
Can CHH take a bad year?
Choice Hotels International, Inc. carries $1.96B of net debt at 4.13× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.96B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.13×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.48× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.25
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 4.28×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.00B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $43M
- Net debt
- $1.96B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $474M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $408M
- Debt / equity
- 14.1×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.22×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- −11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.