Is it safe?
Can LBTYA take a bad year?
Liberty Global Ltd. carries $6.53B of net debt at 6.45× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$6.53B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.45×
Net debt / EBITDA · 7.18× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $77M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $8.40B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.87B
- Net debt
- $6.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.01B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$60M
- Debt / equity
- 0.88×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 8.31×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.