Is it safe?
Can GNRC take a bad year?
Generac carries $987M of net debt at 1.99× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$987M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.99×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.55× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 5.34
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 4.68×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.25B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $266M
- Net debt
- $987M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $497M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $323M
- Debt / equity
- 0.47×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.52×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 50%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −84%
- Below its 52-week high
- −30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
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