Is it safe?
Can LUMN take a bad year?
Lumen Technologies, Inc. carries $11.3B of net debt at 4.76× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$11.3B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.76×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.58× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- -0.25
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Annualised volatility
- 106%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $13.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.63B
- Net debt
- $11.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.38B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$317M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 106%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −94%
- Below its 52-week high
- −48%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.