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Martin Marietta Materials carries $5.84B of net debt at 2.83× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$5.84B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.83×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.78
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 5.95×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $5.95B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $112M
- Net debt
- $5.84B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.07B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.38B
- Debt / equity
- 0.52×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.88×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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