Is it safe?
Can STZ take a bad year?
Constellation Brands carries $10.4B of net debt at 3.20× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$10.4B
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.20×
Net debt / EBITDA · 20.2× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 8.18×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 31%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $10.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $97M
- Net debt
- $10.4B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.27B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.85B
- Debt / equity
- 1.28×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.23×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- −21%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.