Is it safe?
Can FERG take a bad year?
Ferguson Enterprises Inc. carries $4.47B of net debt at 1.25× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.47B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.25×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.25× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $4.90B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $437M
- Net debt
- $4.47B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.59B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.20B
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- 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.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #9 of 17 by Smart Score