KRTKarat Packaging Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -48% · now at/near 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 KRT take a bad year?
Karat Packaging Inc. holds $7.4M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Interest cover
- 34.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $47M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $54M
- Net cash
- $7.4M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $74M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $63M
- Debt / equity
- 0.28×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- 1.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Packaging & Containers
Ranks #3 of 12 by RyuScore