Is it safe?
Can PNTG take a bad year?
The Pennant Group, Inc. carries $160M of net debt at 2.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$160M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.43×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.97× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.57
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.62×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $165M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.9M
- Net debt
- $160M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $66M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $57M
- Debt / equity
- 0.42×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.50×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −86%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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