Is it safe?
Can IFF take a bad year?
International Flavors & Fragrances carries $5.41B of net debt at 3.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$5.41B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 26.5× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.29
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.97B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $562M
- Net debt
- $5.41B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.48B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $794M
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.05×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −57%
- Below its 52-week high
- −1.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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