Is it safe?
Can GPN take a bad year?
Global Payments carries $17.7B of net debt at 5.60× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$17.7B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.60×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.44× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 1.87×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 41%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $23.6B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.86B
- Net debt
- $17.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.16B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.36B
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 7.45×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −70%
- Below its 52-week high
- −1.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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