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Can CMP take a bad year?
Compass Minerals International, Inc. carries $639M of net debt at 3.16× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$639M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 13.9× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.62
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.73×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $713M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $74M
- Net debt
- $639M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $202M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $121M
- Debt / equity
- 2.60×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.53×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −89%
- Below its 52-week high
- −26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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