Is it safe?
Can ECVT take a bad year?
Ecovyst Inc. carries $230M of net debt at 1.64× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$230M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.64×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.54× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.87
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 2.45×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $393M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $163M
- Net debt
- $230M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $140M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $78M
- Debt / equity
- 0.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- 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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Ranks #9 of 36 by Smart Score