Is it safe?
Can MKSI take a bad year?
MKS Inc. carries $3.49B of net debt at 3.41× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$3.49B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.41×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.57× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.71
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 3.66×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.94B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $454M
- Net debt
- $3.49B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.02B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $681M
- Debt / equity
- 1.32×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.86×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 60%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- −35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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