Is it safe?
Can ST take a bad year?
Sensata Technologies Holding plc carries $2.19B of net debt at 4.70× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.19B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.70×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.72× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.44
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 1.77×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.83B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $635M
- Net debt
- $2.19B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $467M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $257M
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.06×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 44%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- −20%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Scientific & Technical Instruments
Ranks #14 of 16 by Smart Score