Is it safe?
Can STGW take a bad year?
Stagwell Inc. carries $1.32B of net debt at 4.09× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.32B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.09×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Altman Z-score
- 1.03
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.56×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.44B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $115M
- Net debt
- $1.32B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $324M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $150M
- Debt / equity
- 2.04×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.45×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 53%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −94%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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