Is it safe?
Can VZ take a bad year?
Verizon carries $163.5B of net debt at 3.44× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$163.5B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.44×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.99× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.28
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 3.88×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $165.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.75B
- Net debt
- $163.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $47.6B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $28.5B
- Debt / equity
- 1.57×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.47×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −41%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.85%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #19 of 28 by Smart Score