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Can EL take a bad year?
Estée Lauder Companies (The) carries $3.68B of net debt at 2.98× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.68B
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.98×
Net debt / EBITDA · 23.1× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.64
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 1.26×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
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- Total debtQ3 2026
- $6.81B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.13B
- Net debt
- $3.68B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.24B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $429M
- Debt / equity
- 1.71×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.50×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 51%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −86%
- Below its 52-week high
- −12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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