Is it safe?
Can NWN take a bad year?
Northwest Natural Holding Company carries $2.57B of net debt at 5.60× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.57B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.60×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.80× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.68
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $68M a quarter at the current rate
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.60B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $35M
- Net debt
- $2.57B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $459M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $289M
- Debt / equity
- 1.65×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 20%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.8%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities - Regulated Gas
Ranks #8 of 13 by Smart Score