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DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. carries $908M of net debt at 0.53× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$908M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.53×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.23× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.99
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 16.9×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.91B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $998M
- Net debt
- $908M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.73B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.18B
- Debt / equity
- 0.34×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.10×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −71%
- Below its 52-week high
- −46%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Retail
Ranks #10 of 18 by Smart Score