Is it safe?
Can MH take a bad year?
McGraw Hill, Inc. carries $2.32B of net debt at 3.63× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.32B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.63×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.17× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.39
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 3.54×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ4 2026
- $2.57B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $254M
- Net debt
- $2.32B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $639M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $277M
- Debt / equity
- 3.54×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.03×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 62%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −49%
- Below its 52-week high
- −27%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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