Is it safe?
Can NDSN take a bad year?
Nordson Corporation carries $1.78B of net debt at 2.22× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.78B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.22×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.97× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 5.50
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.97×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.89B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $102M
- Net debt
- $1.78B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $804M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $766M
- Debt / equity
- 0.59×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.35×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 26%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.04%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #7 of 44 by Smart Score