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 KKR's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:
KKR'
s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.56 Med: 2.4 Max: 15.84
Current: 2.12
During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of KKR was 15.84. The lowest was 0.56. And the median was 2.40.
KKR's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than 95.5% of 956
companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.23
vs KKR: 2.12
KKR Debt-to-Equity Historical Data
The historical data trend for KKR'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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KKR Annual Data
Trend
Dec12
Dec13
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Debt-to-Equity
2.95
2.58
2.51
2.45
2.24
KKR Quarterly Data
Sep17
Dec17
Mar18
Jun18
Sep18
Dec18
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Debt-to-Equity
2.40
2.47
2.24
2.51
2.12
Competitive Comparison
For the Asset Management subindustry, KKR'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.
KKR Debt-to-Equity Distribution
For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, KKR's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where KKR's Debt-to-Equity falls into.
KKR Debt-to-Equity Calculation
Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.
KKR's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 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.
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.
KKR Debt-to-Equity Related Terms
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KKR is one of the world's largest alternative asset managers, with $459.1 billion in total assets under management, including $349.1 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of September 2021. The company has two core segments: asset management (which includes private markets--private equity, credit, infrastructure, energy and real estate--and public markets-- primarily credit and hedge/investment fund platforms) and insurance (following the February 2021 purchase of a 61.5% economic stake in Global Atlantic Financial Group, which is engaged in retirement/annuity and life insurance lines as well as reinsurance). On the asset management side, private markets accounts for 42% of fee-earning AUM and 67% of base management fees, while public markets account for 58% and 33%, respectively.
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