HASHasbro
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$6.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -64% · now 11% 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 HAS take a bad year?
Hasbro carries $2.66B of net debt at 2.11× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.11×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 6.85×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.54B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $881M
- Net debt
- $2.66B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.26B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.16B
- Debt / equity
- 4.84×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −64%
- Below its 52-week high
- 11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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