Is it safe?
Can LEVI take a bad year?
Levi Strauss & Co. carries $65M of net debt at 0.07× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$65M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.07×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.41× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.04
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.46×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.04B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $978M
- Net debt
- $65M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $918M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $699M
- Debt / equity
- 0.46×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.14×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −60%
- Below its 52-week high
- −16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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