Is it safe?
Can WMT take a bad year?
Walmart carries $40.7B of net debt at 0.91× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$40.7B
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.91×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.86× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 12.7×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $51.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $10.7B
- Net debt
- $40.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $44.8B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $30.2B
- Debt / equity
- 0.55×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.15×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −26%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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