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CoreCivic, Inc. carries $1.24B of net debt at 3.24× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.24B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.24×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.78× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.30×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 46%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.35B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $109M
- Net debt
- $1.24B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $382M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $245M
- Debt / equity
- 0.94×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.53×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.06%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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