Is it safe?
Can MDU take a bad year?
MDU Resources Group, Inc. carries $2.53B of net debt at 4.83× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.53B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.83×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.46× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.12
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $97M a quarter at the current rate
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.58B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $46M
- Net debt
- $2.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $524M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $311M
- Debt / equity
- 0.88×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.92×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- −10%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities - Regulated Gas
Ranks #13 of 13 by Smart Score