Is it safe?
Can HAYW take a bad year?
Hayward Holdings, Inc. carries $723M of net debt at 2.70× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$723M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.70×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.29× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.57
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.59×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $954M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $231M
- Net debt
- $723M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $268M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $242M
- Debt / equity
- 0.59×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.56×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −70%
- Below its 52-week high
- −16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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