Is it safe?
Can KNF take a bad year?
Knife River Corporation carries $1.42B of net debt at 2.90× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.42B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.90×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.52× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.28
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Cash runway
- 2.6 years
Cash runway · burning $1.3M a quarter at the current rate
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.43B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $13M
- Net debt
- $1.42B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $489M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $282M
- Debt / equity
- 0.92×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.93×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- Below its 52-week high
- −29%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.