Is it safe?
Can HPE take a bad year?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise carries $15.2B of net debt at 4.16× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$15.2B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.68× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.15
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.81×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $20.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.29B
- Net debt
- $15.2B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.65B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.46B
- Debt / equity
- 0.81×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.61×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 50%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −57%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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