Is it safe?
Can ZD take a bad year?
Ziff Davis, Inc. carries $347M of net debt at 0.93× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$347M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.93×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.39× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.73
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.50×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ1 2026
- $867M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $520M
- Net debt
- $347M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $374M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $151M
- Debt / equity
- 0.50×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 57%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- −0.89%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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