HELEHelen of Troy Limited
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 12% 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 HELE take a bad year?
Helen of Troy Limited carries $650M of net debt at 9.62× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 9.62×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 0.45×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 63%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2027
- $673M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $23M
- Net debt
- $650M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $68M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $24M
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.96×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 63%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Household & Personal Products
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