KEKimball Electronics, Inc.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -58% · now 8% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can KE take a bad year?
Kimball Electronics, Inc. carries $27M of net debt at 0.26× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.26×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.90× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 7.77×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 48%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $116M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $89M
- Net debt
- $27M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $105M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $66M
- Debt / equity
- 0.20×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.11×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 48%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −59%
- Below its 52-week high
- 8.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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