Dayforce (FRA:CQL) Debt-to-Equity : 0.48 (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is Dayforce Debt-to-Equity?

Dayforce's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €544 Mil. Dayforce's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €595 Mil. Dayforce's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €2,398 Mil. Dayforce's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.47.

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

FRA:CQL' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.34 Med: 0.51 Max: 1.18
Current: 0.48

During the past 10 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Dayforce was 1.18. The lowest was 0.34. And the median was 0.51.

FRA:CQL's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
69.74% of 2214 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.2 vs FRA:CQL: 0.48

Dayforce Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

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

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Dayforce Debt-to-Equity Chart

Dayforce Annual Data

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Debt-to-Equity

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0.34

0.53

0.60

0.52

0.48

Dayforce Quarterly Data
	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24	Dec24	Mar25
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.51	0.50	0.48	0.48	0.48

Competitive Comparison of Dayforce's Debt-to-Equity

For the Software - Application subindustry, Dayforce'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.

Dayforce's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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Dayforce Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Dayforce's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 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
	=	(12.415	+	1165.005)	/	2431.717
	=	0.48

Dayforce's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 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
	=	(544.177	+	594.682)	/	2397.692
	=	0.47

Dayforce (FRA:CQL) 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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Dayforce is a global technology company providing cloud-based human capital management solutions for large businesses looking to manage their payroll, tax, benefits, and talent intelligence. The company primarily services customers in the US with its flagship Dayforce platform but also services customers in select European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand. Dayforce services the Canadian HCM market with its Powerpay platform that specifically targets customers with less than 100 employees. As of fiscal 2024, the Dayforce platform accounted for almost 80% of companywide revenue and had 6,876 clients representing approximately 7.62 million employees.

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