Is it safe?
Can EPC take a bad year?
Edgewell Personal Care Company carries $945M of net debt at 10.9× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$945M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.9×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.53× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.54
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.24×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.24B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $300M
- Net debt
- $945M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $87M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $17M
- Debt / equity
- 0.86×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 14.4×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Household & Personal Products
Ranks #12 of 13 by Smart Score