Is it safe?
Can VLTO take a bad year?
Veralto carries $1.23B of net debt at 0.90× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.23B
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.90×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.06× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.59
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 13.9×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $2.66B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.43B
- Net debt
- $1.23B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.38B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.29B
- Debt / equity
- 0.89×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.94×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −27%
- Below its 52-week high
- −9.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.