Is it safe?
Can DRVN take a bad year?
Driven Brands Holdings Inc. carries $1.55B of net debt at 4.75× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.55B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.75×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.40× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.65
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.25×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.69B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $133M
- Net debt
- $1.55B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $327M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $244M
- Debt / equity
- 2.12×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.16×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 45%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −70%
- Below its 52-week high
- −32%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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