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Jacobs Solutions carries $2.41B of net debt at 3.17× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.41B
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.17×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.25× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.93×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 28%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $3.58B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.17B
- Net debt
- $2.41B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $759M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $650M
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.72×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Engineering & Construction
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