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Can SWK take a bad year?
Stanley Black & Decker carries $4.17B of net debt at 3.10× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$4.17B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.10×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.17× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 1.80×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 41%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $592M
- Net debt
- $4.17B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.34B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $847M
- Debt / equity
- 0.53×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.54×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 41%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −71%
- Below its 52-week high
- −4.1%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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