Is it safe?
Can CNM take a bad year?
Core & Main, Inc. carries $1.99B of net debt at 2.18× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.99B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.18×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.47× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.50
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.05×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.14B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $150M
- Net debt
- $1.99B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $914M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $728M
- Debt / equity
- 1.05×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.35×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −40%
- Below its 52-week high
- −35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #4 of 17 by Smart Score