Is it safe?
Can MSI take a bad year?
Motorola Solutions carries $8.32B of net debt at 2.42× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$8.32B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.42×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.48× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.66
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 6.93×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $9.03B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $710M
- Net debt
- $8.32B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.44B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.05B
- Debt / equity
- 3.38×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −33%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.00%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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