Is it safe?
Can KTB take a bad year?
Kontoor Brands, Inc. carries $1.09B of net debt at 2.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.09B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.26× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.34
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 5.17×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.14B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $56M
- Net debt
- $1.09B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $408M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $354M
- Debt / equity
- 1.85×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 48%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −67%
- Below its 52-week high
- −12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Apparel Manufacturing
Ranks #3 of 11 by Smart Score