UTZUtz Brands, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (BBB) and big price swings.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -75% · now at/near its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can UTZ take a bad year?
Utz Brands, Inc. carries $819M of net debt at 10.4× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.4×
Net debt / EBITDA · 8.78× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.26×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 74%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $877M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $59M
- Net debt
- $819M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $79M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $9.7M
- Debt / equity
- 1.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 11.1×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 74%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −75%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.00%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.