Is it safe?
Can SCI take a bad year?
Service Corporation International carries $4.90B of net debt at 4.11× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$4.90B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.11×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.97× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 0.77
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 3.76×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $5.16B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $258M
- Net debt
- $4.90B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.19B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $970M
- Debt / equity
- 3.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.33×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −34%
- Below its 52-week high
- −2.2%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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