Is it safe?
Can QCOM take a bad year?
Qualcomm carries $4.97B of net debt at 0.42× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.97B
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.42×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.35× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 7.03
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 14.8×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $13.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $8.30B
- Net debt
- $4.97B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $11.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $10.2B
- Debt / equity
- 0.48×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.13×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 45%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −44%
- 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.
Semiconductors
Ranks #39 of 48 by Smart Score