Is it safe?
Can OMC take a bad year?
Omnicom Group carries $5.99B of net debt at 5.86× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$5.99B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.86×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.12× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.89
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.97×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $10.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.29B
- Net debt
- $5.99B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.02B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $638M
- Debt / equity
- 1.09×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 10.1×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −43%
- Below its 52-week high
- −1.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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