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Can MTCH take a bad year?
Match Group, Inc. carries $2.53B of net debt at 2.54× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.53B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.54×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.35× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.71
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 6.05×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.55B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.02B
- Net debt
- $2.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $996M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $936M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.56×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 36%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −84%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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