Is it safe?
Can PEG take a bad year?
Public Service Enterprise Group carries $24.3B of net debt at 5.82× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$24.3B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.82×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.88× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.29
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.75×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $24.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $192M
- Net debt
- $24.3B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.18B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.90B
- Debt / equity
- 1.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.87×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 21%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −41%
- Below its 52-week high
- −13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Ranks #9 of 37 by Smart Score