Is it safe?
Can EHC take a bad year?
Encompass Health Corporation carries $2.53B of net debt at 1.73× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.53B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.73×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.84× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 8.89×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 29%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.63B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $108M
- Net debt
- $2.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.46B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.12B
- Debt / equity
- 1.01×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −40%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Medical Care Facilities
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