Is it safe?
Can ELF take a bad year?
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. carries $550M of net debt at 4.13× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$550M
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.13×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.57× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.76
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ4 2026
- $839M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $290M
- Net debt
- $550M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $133M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $74M
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.30×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 70%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −77%
- Below its 52-week high
- −27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #11 of 13 by Smart Score