BLSFY (BlueScope Steel) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.56 (As of Dec. 2024)

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What is BlueScope Steel Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

BlueScope Steel's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $92 Mil. BlueScope Steel's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $373 Mil. BlueScope Steel's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was $835 Mil. BlueScope Steel's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 0.56.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

BLSFY' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.3 Med: 0.56 Max: 1.52
Current: 0.46

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of BlueScope Steel was 1.52. The lowest was 0.30. And the median was 0.56.

BLSFY's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
85.71% of 483 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 2.82 vs BLSFY: 0.46

BlueScope Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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BlueScope Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

BlueScope Steel Annual Data

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Jun24

Debt-to-EBITDA

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1.52

0.52

0.30

0.36

BlueScope Steel Semi-Annual Data
	Jun15	Dec15	Jun16	Dec16	Jun17	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.57	0.39	0.35	0.38	0.56

Competitive Comparison of BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Steel subindustry, BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA 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.

BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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BlueScope Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

BlueScope Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(126.693	+	352.39)	/	1323.572
	=	0.36

BlueScope Steel's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(92.274	+	372.894)	/	834.578
	=	0.56

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is two times the quarterly (Dec. 2024) EBITDA data.

BlueScope Steel (OTCPK:BLSFY) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

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181 William Street, Level 24, Melbourne, VIC, AUS, 3000

Website

https://www.bluescope.com

BlueScope is an Australia-based steelmaker with five business units. The Australian steel products segment mainly specializes in branded coated and painted flat steel products, sold domestically. North Star is the group's US minimill, specializing in the production of hot rolled coil for US construction and automotive sectors. Building products Asia operates across Southeast Asia, China, and India, and the US building and coated products North America is involved in metal coating and painting, and the supply to nonresidential construction projects using BlueScope's materials. New Zealand steel and the Pacific Islands business produces flat and long steel products for New Zealand and building components for the Pacific Islands.