Is it safe?
Can POST take a bad year?
Post Holdings, Inc. carries $7.36B of net debt at 5.17× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$7.36B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.17×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.94× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.34
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.14×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $7.63B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $269M
- Net debt
- $7.36B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.42B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $853M
- Debt / equity
- 2.39×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.36×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- Below its 52-week high
- −28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.