Is it safe?
Can KVUE take a bad year?
Kenvue carries $5.97B of net debt at 1.91× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$5.97B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.91×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.25× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.16
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.19×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $7.08B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.11B
- Net debt
- $5.97B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.13B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.63B
- Debt / equity
- 0.67×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.26×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- 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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