Is it safe?
Can STX take a bad year?
Seagate Technology carries $1.86B of net debt at 0.43× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.86B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.43×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.92× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 18.87
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 14.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $3.56B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.70B
- Net debt
- $1.86B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.37B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $4.09B
- Debt / equity
- 1.65×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.82×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −57%
- Below its 52-week high
- −23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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