Is it safe?
Can DCH take a bad year?
Dauch Corporation carries $4.25B of net debt at 7.52× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.25B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 7.52×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.14× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.44
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.14×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.25B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.01B
- Net debt
- $4.25B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $565M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $36M
- Debt / equity
- 3.51×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.30×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 56%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −87%
- Below its 52-week high
- −29%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.