APOGApogee Enterprises, Inc.

$43.61+16% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (A) and typical volatility.

2 neutral, 4 without data
Credit gradeAderived · Aug 29, 2026

Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk42% volderived · Oct 23, 2026

Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -75% · now 11% below its 52-week high.

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can APOG take a bad year?

Apogee Enterprises, Inc. carries $299M of net debt at 1.93× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.

$299M

Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable

Net debt / EBITDA
1.93×

Net debt / EBITDA · 1.95× a year ago · the load is coming down

Interest cover
8.28×

Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over

Annualised volatility
42%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 16% · about 3 times the market's own swing

Details›
Total debtQ2 2027
$336M
Cash and short-term investments
$37M
Net debt
$299M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$155M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$103M
Debt / equity
0.64×
Total debt / EBITDA
2.17×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
42%
Worst drawdown on file
−75%
Below its 52-week high
11%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

The balance sheet

What it owes against what it owns, and how close that comes to trouble.

How far can it fall?

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and what each unit of risk has paid.