Is it safe?
Can LAMR take a bad year?
Lamar Advertising Company carries $3.46B of net debt at 3.26× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.46B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.26×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.96× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 4.48×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 24%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.50B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $39M
- Net debt
- $3.46B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.06B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $729M
- Debt / equity
- 3.56×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.30×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −66%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT - Specialty
Ranks #7 of 13 by Smart Score