Is it safe?
Can SBH take a bad year?
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. carries $670M of net debt at 1.76× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$670M
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.76×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.03× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.80
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 5.15×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $827M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $157M
- Net debt
- $670M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $380M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $306M
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.18×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 50%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- −2.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.