Is it safe?
Can IMKTA take a bad year?
Ingles Markets, Incorporated carries $86M of net debt at 0.32× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$86M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.32×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.05× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.48
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.71×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $504M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $418M
- Net debt
- $86M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $268M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $146M
- Debt / equity
- 0.30×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.88×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −59%
- 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.
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