LILALiberty Latin America Ltd.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: insiders buying, but heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Multiple insiders bought with their own money (net +$15.8M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026).
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -87% · now 9% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can LILA take a bad year?
Liberty Latin America Ltd. carries $7.73B of net debt at 5.02× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.02×
Net debt / EBITDA · 17.2× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 0.96×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 46%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $8.45B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $714M
- Net debt
- $7.73B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.54B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $640M
- Debt / equity
- 16.0×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.48×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −87%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.