Is it safe?
Can KSS take a bad year?
Kohl's Corporation carries $958M of net debt at 0.73× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$958M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.73×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.63× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.69
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.34×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.39B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $429M
- Net debt
- $958M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.31B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $610M
- Debt / equity
- 0.34×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.06×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 81%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −89%
- Below its 52-week high
- −26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.