Is it safe?
Can VMI take a bad year?
Valmont Industries, Inc. carries $630M of net debt at 1.18× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$630M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.18×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.89× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 7.20
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 11.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $790M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $160M
- Net debt
- $630M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $532M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $443M
- Debt / equity
- 0.47×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.48×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −49%
- Below its 52-week high
- −18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.