Is it safe?
Can GD take a bad year?
General Dynamics carries $4.15B of net debt at 0.66× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.15B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.41× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.23
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $8.01B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.86B
- Net debt
- $4.15B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $6.32B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $5.51B
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.27×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Aerospace & Defense
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