Is it safe?
Can SHOO take a bad year?
Steven Madden, Ltd. carries $286M of net debt at 1.75× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$286M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.75×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.61× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 4.86
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $286M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $0
- Net debt
- $286M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $164M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $126M
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −60%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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