LXFRLuxfer Holdings PLC
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -68% · now 10% 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 LXFR take a bad year?
Luxfer Holdings PLC carries $47M of net debt at 1.47× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.47×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.09× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 7.32×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $58M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $12M
- Net debt
- $47M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $32M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $23M
- Debt / equity
- 0.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.83×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −68%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #21 of 33 by RyuScore