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Can MELI take a bad year?
MercadoLibre, Inc. carries $4.54B of net debt at 1.28× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.54B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.28×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.47× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.40×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 41%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $10.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $5.65B
- Net debt
- $4.54B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.54B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.05B
- Debt / equity
- 1.40×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.88×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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