Is it safe?
Can FIS take a bad year?
Fidelity National Information Services carries $20.3B of net debt at 5.24× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$20.3B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.24×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.24× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.57×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 30%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $21.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $755M
- Net debt
- $20.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.87B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.82B
- Debt / equity
- 1.32×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- −42%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Information Technology Services
Ranks #9 of 37 by Smart Score