Is it safe?
Can VIAV take a bad year?
Viavi Solutions Inc. carries $336M of net debt at 3.64× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$336M
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.64×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.01× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- -41.92
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 1.33×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $836M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $501M
- Net debt
- $336M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $92M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $59M
- Debt / equity
- 0.99×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.07×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 59%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- −30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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