Is it safe?
Can HLF take a bad year?
Herbalife Ltd. carries $1.54B of net debt at 2.50× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.54B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.50×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.33× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.37
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 2.37×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.99B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $451M
- Net debt
- $1.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $617M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $497M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.23×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 66%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- −38%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.