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Assured Guaranty (Assured Guaranty) Debt-to-Equity

: 0.30 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Assured Guaranty's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0 Mil. Assured Guaranty's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,694 Mil. Assured Guaranty's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $5,713 Mil. Assured Guaranty's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.30.

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

AGO' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.18   Med: 0.21   Max: 0.33
Current: 0.3

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Assured Guaranty was 0.33. The lowest was 0.18. And the median was 0.21.

AGO's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
54.71% of 382 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 0.245 vs AGO: 0.30

Assured Guaranty Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

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

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* 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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Assured Guaranty Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-Equity
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.19 0.18 0.27 0.33 0.30

Assured Guaranty Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Debt-to-Equity Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.33 0.32 0.32 0.32 0.30

Competitive Comparison

For the Insurance - Specialty subindustry, Assured Guaranty'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.


Assured Guaranty Debt-to-Equity Distribution

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Assured Guaranty's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

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



Assured Guaranty Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Assured Guaranty's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Assured Guaranty's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* 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.


Assured Guaranty  (NYSE:AGO) 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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Assured Guaranty (Assured Guaranty) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
30 Woodbourne Avenue, Hamilton, BMU, HM 08
Assured Guaranty Ltd. provides credit protection products to the United States and international public finance and structured finance markets, and manages assets across collateralized loan obligations as well as opportunity funds and liquid strategy funds that build on its corporate credit, asset-based finance, municipal and healthcare experience. The company is operating in two segments Insurance segment and the Asset Management segment. The majority of the revenue earned by the company is from the Insurance segment.
Executives
G Lawrence Buhl director 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, C/O ASSURED GUARANTY LTD, HAMILTON BERMUDA D0 0000
Stephen Donnarumma officer: Chief Credit Officer 30 WOODOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0 HM08
Dominic Frederico director, officer: Deputy Chairman/President/CEO ACE LTD, ACE BLDG 30 WOODBOURNE AVE HAMILTON BER
Robert Bailenson officer: Chief Accounting Officer ASSURED GUARANTY LTD., 30 WOODBOURNE AVENUE, HAMILTON D0 HM08
Jorge A. Gana officer: Chief Risk Officer 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Howard Albert officer: Chief Risk Officer 31 WEST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
David A. Buzen officer: Head of Asset Management* 850 3RD AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10022
Laura Bieling officer: Chief Accounting Officer* 30 WOODBOURNE AVE., 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Holly Horn officer: Chief Surveillance Officer 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Brewer Russell B. Ii officer: Chief Surveillance Officer 31 WEST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Shea Courtney C. director 1555 N. ASTOR STREET, APARTMENT 9W, CHICAGO IL 60610
Michelle Mccloskey director C/O ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN LP, 9TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10105
Lorin Radtke director 30 WOODBOURNE AVE, 5TH FLOOR, HAMILTON D0 D0 HM08
Thomas W Jones director ALTRIA GROUP INC, 6601 WEST BROAD STREET, RICHMOND VA 23230
Andrew T Feldstein officer: Chief Investment Officer 280 PARK AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR EAST, NEW YORK NY 10017