Is it safe?
Can DOLE take a bad year?
Dole plc carries $631M of net debt at 1.93× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$631M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.93×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.14× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 3.50×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 27%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $911M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $280M
- Net debt
- $631M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $328M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $217M
- Debt / equity
- 0.66×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.78×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- −16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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