Is it safe?
Can TSN take a bad year?
Tyson Foods carries $7.58B of net debt at 3.06× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$7.58B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.06×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.84× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.08
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 2.75×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $8.08B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $500M
- Net debt
- $7.58B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.47B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.16B
- Debt / equity
- 0.45×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.27×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- −17%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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