Polycom (Polycom) Debt-to-Equity : 0.21 (As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Polycom Debt-to-Equity?

Polycom's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $6 Mil. Polycom's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $226 Mil. Polycom's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $1,080 Mil. Polycom's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.21.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The historical rank and industry rank for Polycom's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

PLCM's Debt-to-Equity is not ranked ^*
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 0.28
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-Equity only.

Polycom Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for Polycom's Debt-to-Equity can be seen below:

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* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Polycom Debt-to-Equity Chart

Polycom Annual Data

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0.22

Polycom Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.23	0.23	0.22	0.22	0.21

Competitive Comparison of Polycom's Debt-to-Equity

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Polycom's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Polycom's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Polycom's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Polycom's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

Polycom Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Polycom's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(5.717	+	228.799)	/	1053.209
	=	0.22

Polycom's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(5.717	+	225.94)	/	1080.041
	=	0.21

Polycom (NAS:PLCM) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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Polycom (Polycom) Business Description

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Polycom Inc was incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. The Company provides an open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice, video and content collaboration solutions. Its solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. The Company is engaged in helping organizations achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity by unleashing the power of human collaboration. The Company sells its solutions through a high-touch sales model that leverages its network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators; communications services providers, and retailers. The Company serves in three geographical segments; Americas, EMEA and APAC. Its products and solutions are; UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Platform, which includes collaboration servers, virtualization management "distributed media optimization", resource management, recording and streaming, open API's and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform, and UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. It competes in the UC&C market with products and solutions that enable voice, video and content collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via its customer premises-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social-collaboration business platforms, and video collaboration-as-a-service offerings delivered from the cloud. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Acano, Avaya Inc., Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Logitech International S.A./LifeSize, PexIP, Snom Technology Ag, Vidyo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation/Revolabs, Inc., Yealink, ZTE Corporation and others. Its products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations.

Executives

Laura Durr	officer: CFO	C/O XPERI HOLDING CORPORATION, 3025 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Peter Leav	director, officer: President & CEO	7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 250 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10007
Martha Helena Bejar	director	C/O POLYCOM, INC., 6001 AMERICA CENTER DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95002
Gary James Daichendt	director	2633 RIVIERA DRIVE, LAGUNA BEACH CA 92651
Robert J Frankenberg	director	701 E. SUNBURST LN, ALPINE UT 84004
Betsy S Atkins	director, other: Former Director
William Arthur Owens	director	C/O CENTURYLINK, INC., 100 CENTURYLINK DRIVE, MONROE LA 71203
Eric F Brown	officer: CFO, COO & EVP	C/O POLYCOM, INC., 4750 WILLOW ROAD, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Tracey Newell	officer: EVP Global Sales	4750 WILLOW ROAD, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Andrew M. Miller	director, officer: President and CEO	6001 AMERICA CENTER DR., SAN JOSE CA 95164
David G Dewalt	director
Sudhakar Ramakrishna	officer: Pres. of Products & Services	4750 WILLOW RD., PLEASANTON CA 94588
Michael R Kourey	officer: Former EVP, Fin & Admin. & CFO
Robert C Hagerty	director, officer: President/CEO
Kevin Kennedy	other: Former Director