Is it safe?
Can KDP take a bad year?
Keurig Dr Pepper carries $23.3B of net debt at 6.38× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$23.3B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.38×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.72× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.44
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $24.8B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.52B
- Net debt
- $23.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.65B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.26B
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.80×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
Ranks #8 of 10 by Smart Score