Is it safe?
Can WLFC take a bad year?
Willis Lease Finance Corporation carries $2.31B of net debt at 9.70× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$2.31B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 9.70×
Net debt / EBITDA · 12.8× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 0.93×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 70%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.32B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $11M
- Net debt
- $2.31B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $238M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $120M
- Debt / equity
- 3.27×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 70%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- −77%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Rental & Leasing Services
Ranks #9 of 15 by Smart Score