Is it safe?
Can GPRE take a bad year?
Green Plains Inc. carries $397M of net debt at 2.84× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$397M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.84×
Net debt / EBITDA · 17.8× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.73
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.50×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $492M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $96M
- Net debt
- $397M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $139M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $40M
- Debt / equity
- 0.63×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.53×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 72%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- −23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.