Is it safe?
Can SW take a bad year?
Smurfit Westrock carries $13.6B of net debt at 3.32× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$13.6B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.32×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.23× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.53
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.68×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $14.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $674M
- Net debt
- $13.6B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.09B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.42B
- Debt / equity
- 0.79×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.48×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Packaging & Containers
Ranks #11 of 15 by Smart Score