Is it safe?
Can NWL take a bad year?
Newell Brands Inc. carries $4.76B of net debt at 13.0× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.76B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 13.0×
Net debt / EBITDA · 12.2× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.46
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 2.12×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.96B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $201M
- Net debt
- $4.76B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $367M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $52M
- Debt / equity
- 2.12×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 13.5×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 64%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −92%
- Below its 52-week high
- −6.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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