Is it safe?
Can MSM take a bad year?
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. carries $433M of net debt at 1.00× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$433M
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.00×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.13× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 6.18
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 15.0×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $507M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $74M
- Net debt
- $433M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $431M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $332M
- Debt / equity
- 0.36×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.18×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Industrial Distribution
Ranks #15 of 17 by Smart Score