Is it safe?
Can IT take a bad year?
Gartner carries $1.32B of net debt at 1.05× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.32B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.05×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.27× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.09
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 8.00×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.98B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.67B
- Net debt
- $1.32B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.26B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.06B
- Debt / equity
- 47.1×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −77%
- Below its 52-week high
- −27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Information Technology Services
Ranks #20 of 37 by Smart Score