Which stocks were hit hard by a high key rate? Expensive money has become a serious test for companies with a high debt load. During nine months of 2026, shares of issuers with NetDebt/EBITDA above 3.0x fell an average of 31.5% - twice as much as those of companies with moderate debt. ️ A low stock price does not always mean that the company is undervalued. The collapse of quotas can hide huge debts that leave shareholders with only a fraction of the value of the business. Analysts at Uniservice Capital studied how the burden of debt affects the capital of companies where a threshold of increased risk is passed, and whose parties could improve their financial position by reducing debt.