Is it safe?
Can RSG take a bad year?
Republic Services carries $14.0B of net debt at 2.67× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$14.0B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.67×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.53× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.04
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 5.70×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $14.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $107M
- Net debt
- $14.0B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $5.23B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.37B
- Debt / equity
- 1.17×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.69×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 19%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −34%
- Below its 52-week high
- −5.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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