Is it safe?
Can COO take a bad year?
Cooper Companies (The) carries $2.92B of net debt at 3.69× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.92B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.69×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.44× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.42
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 5.35×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.06B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $139M
- Net debt
- $2.92B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $790M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $498M
- Debt / equity
- 0.37×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.87×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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