Is it safe?
Can MCK take a bad year?
McKesson Corporation carries $2.55B of net debt at 0.37× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.55B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.37×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.01× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 25.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 30%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $6.53B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.98B
- Net debt
- $2.55B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $6.94B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $6.21B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.94×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 30%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- 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.
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