Is it safe?
Can SMG take a bad year?
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company carries $2.34B of net debt at 4.62× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.34B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.62×
Net debt / EBITDA · 7.21× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.70
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 3.80×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.35B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $6.2M
- Net debt
- $2.34B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $507M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $445M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −84%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Agricultural Inputs
Ranks #3 of 7 by Smart Score