LXULSB Industries, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 40% 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 LXU take a bad year?
LSB Industries, Inc. carries $227M of net debt at 1.55× 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
- 1.55×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.25× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 2.17×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 53%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $445M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $218M
- Net debt
- $227M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $147M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $63M
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.03×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 53%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- 40%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.