Is it safe?
Can WING take a bad year?
Wingstop Inc. carries $1.08B of net debt at 4.76× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.08B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.76×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.20× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.57
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Annualised volatility
- 59%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
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- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.21B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $127M
- Net debt
- $1.08B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $228M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $201M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 59%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −74%
- Below its 52-week high
- −67%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.