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 ServiceNow's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:
NOW'
s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.48 Med: 0.91 Max: 2.36
Current: 0.51
During the past 12 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of ServiceNow was 2.36. The lowest was 0.48. And the median was 0.91.
NOW's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than 72.68% of 2046
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.20
vs NOW: 0.51
ServiceNow Debt-to-Equity Historical Data
The historical data trend for ServiceNow'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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ServiceNow Annual Data
Trend
Dec12
Dec13
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Debt-to-Equity
1.51
0.60
0.53
0.75
0.60
ServiceNow 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
0.64
0.63
0.60
0.55
0.51
Competitive Comparison
For the Software - Application subindustry, ServiceNow'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.
ServiceNow Debt-to-Equity Distribution
For the Software industry and Technology sector, ServiceNow's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where ServiceNow's Debt-to-Equity falls into.
ServiceNow Debt-to-Equity Calculation
Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.
ServiceNow'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.
ServiceNow Debt-to-Equity Related Terms
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ServiceNow Inc provides software solutions to structure and automate various business processes via a SaaS delivery model. The company primarily focuses on the IT function for enterprise customers. ServiceNow began with IT service management (ITSM), expanded within the IT function, and more recently directed its workflow automation logic to functional areas beyond IT, notably customer service, HR service delivery, and security operations. ServiceNow also offers an application development platform as a service (PaaS).
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