Is it safe?
Can HWKN take a bad year?
Hawkins, Inc. carries $240M of net debt at 1.38× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$240M
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.38×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.97× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 6.96
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.46×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ4 2025
- $244M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.9M
- Net debt
- $240M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $174M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $121M
- Debt / equity
- 0.46×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.40×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- −36%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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