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 Med: 0.5 Max: 1.17
Current: 1.17
During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Viasat was 1.17. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.50.
VSAT's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than 88.27% of 2123
companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 0.32
vs VSAT: 1.17
Viasat Debt-to-Equity Historical Data
The historical data trend for Viasat'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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Viasat Annual Data
Trend
Mar13
Mar14
Mar15
Mar16
Mar17
Mar18
Mar19
Mar20
Mar21
Mar22
Debt-to-Equity
0.56
0.74
1.08
0.93
1.09
Viasat Quarterly Data
Dec17
Mar18
Jun18
Sep18
Dec18
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Debt-to-Equity
0.95
0.97
1.09
1.13
1.17
Competitive Comparison
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 Debt-to-Equity Distribution
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Viasat's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Viasat's Debt-to-Equity falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Debt-to-Equity's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.
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. 2022 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.
Viasat Debt-to-Equity Related Terms
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Viasat Inc provides bandwidth technologies and services in three segments: satellite services, which provides satellite-based high-speed broadband services to consumers, enterprises, and commercial airlines; commercial networks, which develops end-to-end communication and connectivity systems; and government systems, which produces network-centric Internet Protocol-based secure government communication systems. A large majority of the firm's revenue is generated in the United States, with the rest coming from the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific.
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