Benson Hill (Benson Hill) Debt-to-Equity : 1.70 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Benson Hill Debt-to-Equity?

Benson Hill's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $60.4 Mil. Benson Hill's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $85.4 Mil. Benson Hill's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $86.0 Mil. Benson Hill's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.69.

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 Benson Hill's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

BHIL' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49 Med: 0.81 Max: 1.7
Current: 1.7

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Benson Hill was 1.70. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.81.

BHIL's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
93.21% of 221 companies
in the Agriculture industry
Industry Median: 0.34 vs BHIL: 1.70

Benson Hill Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

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

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Benson Hill Debt-to-Equity Chart

Benson Hill Annual Data

Trend

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Dec23

Debt-to-Equity

N/A

0.49

0.65

0.97

1.70

Benson Hill Quarterly Data
	Dec19	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial										0.97	0.98	1.43	1.63	1.70

Competitive Comparison of Benson Hill's Debt-to-Equity

For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Benson Hill'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.

Benson Hill's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Agriculture Industry

For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Benson Hill's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

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

Benson Hill Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Benson Hill's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 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
	=	(60.395	+	85.435)	/	86.043
	=	1.69

Benson Hill's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 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
	=	(60.395	+	85.435)	/	86.043
	=	1.69

Benson Hill (NYSE:BHIL) 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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Benson Hill (Benson Hill) Business Description

Industry

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Address

1001 North Warson Road, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 63132

Website

https://www.bensonhill.com

Benson Hill Inc is a food technology company. It operates in one segment Ingredients. The ingredients segment is currently focused on commercializing soybean and yellow pea products, including soy-based specialty vegetable oils, aquaculture and animal feed, and ultra-high protein soy-based ingredients that have the potential to eliminate costly water and energy-intensive processing associated with producing products for the food and feed markets, alleviating supply constraints to help bring plant-based proteins to scale.

Executives

Bruce Tyler Bennett	officer: President, Ingredients	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Richard L Mack	director	9590 SKY LANE, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55347
Yevgeny Fundler	officer: Chief Legal Officer, other: Corporate Secretary	1001 NORTH WARSON ROAD, ST. LOUIS MO 63132
Jason Bull	officer: Chief Technology Officer	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Dean P Freeman	officer: Chief Financial Officer	C/O BENSON HILL, INC.,1001 N WARSON RD, SAINT LOUIS MO 63132
Matthew B. Crisp	director, officer: President and CEO	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Montgomery Molly	director	739 MILLER AVENUE, MILL VALLEY CA 94941
David J. Lee	director	C/O ZYNGA INC., 699 8TH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Deann L Brunts	director, officer: Chief Financial Officer	C/O B&G FOODS, INC., 4 GATEHALL DRIVE, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Adrienne Elsner	director	ONE OWENS CORNING PKWY, TOLEDO OH 43659
Linda Whitley-taylor	director	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 NORTH WARSON ROAD, SAINT LOUIS MO 63132
Stephan Dolezalek	director	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Daniel Jacobi	director	C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
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