Is it safe?
Can KWR take a bad year?
Quaker Chemical Corporation carries $742M of net debt at 5.81× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$742M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.81×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.58× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.42
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 1.33×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $912M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $170M
- Net debt
- $742M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $128M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $59M
- Debt / equity
- 0.66×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 7.14×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −66%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #34 of 36 by Smart Score