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Carvana carries $2.90B of net debt at 1.40× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.90B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.40×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.17× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 4.45×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 67%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.31B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.41B
- Net debt
- $2.90B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.08B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.07B
- Debt / equity
- 1.43×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.56×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 67%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −99%
- Below its 52-week high
- −23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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