Is it safe?
Can CWST take a bad year?
Casella Waste Systems, Inc. carries $1.02B of net debt at 2.71× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.02B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.70× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.63
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 1.04×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.15B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $127M
- Net debt
- $1.02B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $379M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $65M
- Debt / equity
- 0.73×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.04×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −38%
- Below its 52-week high
- −13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.