Is it safe?
Can PPC take a bad year?
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation carries $2.55B of net debt at 1.39× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.55B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.39×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.54× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.34
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 8.71×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $3.10B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $542M
- Net debt
- $2.55B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.84B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.37B
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −62%
- Below its 52-week high
- −35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.