Is it safe?
Can MDLZ take a bad year?
Mondelez International carries $19.4B of net debt at 4.04× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$19.4B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.04×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.34× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.31
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.03×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $21.0B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.63B
- Net debt
- $19.4B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.80B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.68B
- Debt / equity
- 0.82×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.38×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 22%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −30%
- Below its 52-week high
- −2.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #83 of 106 by Smart Score