Is it safe?
Can FELE take a bad year?
Franklin Electric Co., Inc. carries $144M of net debt at 0.42× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$144M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.42×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.27× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 7.38
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 24.5×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $224M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $80M
- Net debt
- $144M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $338M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $273M
- Debt / equity
- 0.17×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.66×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −32%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #33 of 44 by Smart Score