Alcatel-Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent) Debt-to-Equity : 0.67 (As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Alcatel-Lucent Debt-to-Equity?

Alcatel-Lucent's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $1,244 Mil. Alcatel-Lucent's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $3,551 Mil. Alcatel-Lucent's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was $7,183 Mil. Alcatel-Lucent's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.67.

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 Alcatel-Lucent's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

ALU's Debt-to-Equity is not ranked ^*
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 0.28
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Alcatel-Lucent Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alcatel-Lucent'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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Alcatel-Lucent Debt-to-Equity Chart

Alcatel-Lucent Annual Data

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Debt-to-Equity

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1.20

2.47

2.10

2.84

1.22

Alcatel-Lucent Quarterly Data
	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Jun16
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.83	2.30	2.93	1.22	0.67

Competitive Comparison of Alcatel-Lucent's Debt-to-Equity

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Alcatel-Lucent'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.

Alcatel-Lucent's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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Alcatel-Lucent Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Alcatel-Lucent'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
	=	(630.719	+	5045.752)	/	4657.952
	=	1.22

Alcatel-Lucent'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
	=	(1243.82	+	3550.562)	/	7183.146
	=	0.67

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) 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.

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Alcatel-Lucent (Alcatel-Lucent) Business Description

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Alcatel-Lucent SA was incorporated on June 18, 1898. The Company is engaged in designing, manufacturing, operations and sales of equipment, material and software related to domestic, industrial, civil, military or other applications concerning electricity, telecommunications, computers, electronics, aerospace industry, nuclear energy, metallurgy, and, in general, of all the means of production or transmission of energy or communication. The Company's core Networking segment includes three business divisions: IP Routing, IP Transport and IP Platforms. The IP ROUTING focus is on the intelligent IP router market and emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) markets and related professional services. In IP TRANSPORT segment company designs, manufactures and markets optical networking equipment to transport information over fiber optic connections over long distances on land or under sea, as well as for short distances in metropolitan and regional areas. The portfolio also includes related professional services and microwave wireless transmission equipment. In IP PLATFORMS, the Company offers software and services to service providers that allow them to meet the market evolution needs of mobile and fixed networks. The Company's access segment includes four business divisions: WIRELESS are committed to a wireless access portfolio that is suited to the operators that are moving to 4G/LTE quickly and decisively. FIXED ACCESS IP-based fixed access products and related professional services provides support for both DSL and fiber, allowing service providers to extend Ultra-Broadband access to the customer's premise regardless of technology and to seamlessly combine copper and fiber access technologies and FTTx deployment models to achieve the fastest return-on-investment and time-to-market. In LICENSING the Intellectual Property Business Group works to monetize the patent portfolio through licensing and patent sales while also maintaining and prosecuting patents. The managed services portfolio includes Build-Operate-Manage-Transfer (BOMT) Solutions, Operations Transformation Solutions, and Network Operations Services. These services can be delivered across a wide array of network technologies including Network Access (FTTx), Next generation wireless (LTE, Small Cells, 4G), and IP Networks. The Company's Other segment includes Enterprise and Government businesses to provide end-to-end products, solutions and services for small, medium, large and extra-large companies to improve conversations and collaboration across employees, customers and partners. The Company sells all of its products and services to the world's telecommunications service providers through its direct sales force. The Company's competitors include Avaya, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN), Samsung, Adtran, Calix, Ciena, Juniper, Ericsson and Huawei.