Is it safe?
Can SYY take a bad year?
Sysco Corporation carries $11.7B of net debt at 2.88× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$11.7B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.88×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.03× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 5.07×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 24%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $13.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.80B
- Net debt
- $11.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.07B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $3.09B
- Debt / equity
- 5.07×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- −8.0%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.