VSAT (Viasat) Debt-to-Equity : 1.65 (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is Viasat Debt-to-Equity?

Viasat's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $569 Mil. Viasat's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $6,946 Mil. Viasat's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $4,554 Mil. Viasat's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 1.65.

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

VSAT' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49 Med: 0.89 Max: 1.65
Current: 1.65

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Viasat was 1.65. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 0.89.

VSAT's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
93.57% of 2163 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 0.28 vs VSAT: 1.65

Viasat Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

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

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Viasat Debt-to-Equity Chart

Viasat Annual Data

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Mar25

Debt-to-Equity

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0.93

1.08

0.73

1.52

1.65

Viasat 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															1.52	1.52	1.88	1.58	1.65

Competitive Comparison of Viasat's Debt-to-Equity

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Viasat'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.

Viasat's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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Viasat Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Viasat's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year 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
	=	(569.135	+	6946.417)	/	4553.831
	=	1.65

Viasat'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
	=	(569.135	+	6946.417)	/	4553.831
	=	1.65

Viasat (NAS:VSAT) 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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Viasat Business Description

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Address

6155 El Camino Real, Carlsbad, CA, USA, 92009

Website

https://www.viasat.com

Viasat Inc provides bandwidth technologies and services in three segments: communication services and defense and advanced technologies. The communication services segment provides a wide range of broadband and narrowband communications solutions across government and commercial mobility markets, as well as for residential and enterprise fixed broadband customers: and the defense and advanced technologies segment develops and offers a diverse array of resilient, vertically integrated solutions to government and commercial customers, leveraging core technical competencies in encryption, cyber security, tactical gateways, modems and waveforms. A large majority of the firm's revenue is generated from communication services segment.

Executives

Luxtopholding Sarl Triton	10 percent owner	1-3 BOULEVARD DE LA FOIRE, LUXEMBOURG N4 L-1528
Cpp Investment Board Private Holdings (4) Inc.	10 percent owner	1 QUEEN STREET EAST, SUITE 2500, TORONTO A6 M5C 2W5
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board	10 percent owner	5650 YONGE STREET, TORONTO A6 M2M 4H5
Mark J Miller	officer: VP, Chief Technical Officer	6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
Richard A Baldridge	officer: Chief Operating Officer	6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
Wp Triton Co-invest, L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Warburg Pincus (cayman) Global Growth Gp Llc	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Craig Andrew Miller	officer: Pres. Government Systems	C/O VIASAT, INC., 6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
Keven K Lippert	officer: Vice President General Counsel	6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
Benjamin Edward Palmer	officer: President, Maritime	C/O VIASAT, INC., 6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
James Michael Dodd	officer: President, Global Mobile	6155 EL CAMINO REAL, CARLSBAD CA 92009
Warburg Pincus Global Growth Partners (cayman), L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Warburg Pincus Global Growth-e (cayman), L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Warburg Pincus Global Growth-b (cayman), L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017
Warburg Pincus (europa) Global Growth (cayman), L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O WARBURG PINCUS LLC, 450 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10017