Is it safe?
Can CRI take a bad year?
Carter's, Inc. carries $94M of net debt at 0.47× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$94M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.47×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.63× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.76
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.61×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $567M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $473M
- Net debt
- $94M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $200M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $146M
- Debt / equity
- 0.61×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.84×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 52%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −76%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.