Is it safe?
Can ELS take a bad year?
Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. carries $398M of net debt at 0.66× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$398M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.26× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 2.95×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 19%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $438M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $39M
- Net debt
- $398M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $605M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $394M
- Debt / equity
- 0.25×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.72×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 19%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −41%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT - Residential
Ranks #6 of 10 by Smart Score