Is it safe?
Can VFC take a bad year?
V.F. Corporation carries $2.71B of net debt at 3.16× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$2.71B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.30× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.87
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 3.46×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $3.53B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $824M
- Net debt
- $2.71B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $857M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $577M
- Debt / equity
- 1.91×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.12×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 63%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- −35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Apparel Manufacturing
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