LIONLionsgate Studios Corp.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -55% · now 32% 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 LION take a bad year?
Lionsgate Studios Corp. carries $1.48B of net debt at 9.79× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 9.79×
Net debt / EBITDA · 129× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 0.54×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 53%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $1.90B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $426M
- Net debt
- $1.48B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $151M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $133M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 12.6×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 53%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- Below its 52-week high
- 32%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.