FOSLFossil Group, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -98% · now 3% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can FOSL take a bad year?
Fossil Group, Inc. carries $124M of net debt at 24.2× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 24.2×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Cash runway
- 1.9 years
Cash runway · burning $10M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 101%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $203M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $79M
- Net debt
- $124M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $5.1M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$5.6M
- Debt / equity
- 2.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 39.7×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 101%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −98%
- Below its 52-week high
- 3.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Footwear & Accessories
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