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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (FRA:KM7) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.62 (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €744 Mil. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €17,089 Mil. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €4,929 Mil. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 3.62.

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 Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:KM7' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0   Max: 4.09
Current: 4.09

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP was 4.09. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

FRA:KM7's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 1.77 vs FRA:KM7: 4.09

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA 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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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.22 4.39 4.96 4.56 4.52

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Quarterly Data
Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.21 3.88 4.14 4.18 3.62

Competitive Comparison of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP'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.


Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(1097.92 + 14325.52) / 3412.75
=4.52

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(744.184 + 17089.072) / 4929.152
=3.62

* 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.

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 four times the quarterly (Sep. 2014) EBITDA data.


Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP  (FRA:KM7) 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.


Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (FRA:KM7) Business Description

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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP is a Delaware limited partnership formed in August 1992. The Company is engaged in pipeline transportation and energy storage company in North America. They own an interest in or operate approximately 52,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. Its pipelines transport natural gas, refined petroleum products, crude oil, condensate, CO2 and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products, ethanol and chemicals, and handle such products as coal, petroleum coke and steel. They are also the producer and transporter of CO2, for enhanced oil recovery projects in North America. Its operations are conducted through our five operating limited partnerships and their subsidiaries and are grouped into five reportable business segments: Natural Gas Pipelines—consists of approximately 40,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines and gathering lines, plus natural gas storage, treating and processing facilities, through which natural gas is gathered, transported, stored, treated, processed and sold; O2—which produces, markets and transports, through approximately 1,500 miles of pipelines, CO2 to oil fields that use CO2 to increase production of oil; owns interests in and/or operate four primary oil fields in West Texas; and owns and operates a 450-mile crude oil pipeline system in West Texas; Products Pipelines—consists of approximately 9,000 miles of refined petroleum products and crude oil and condensate pipelines that deliver refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel), NGL, crude oil, condensate and bio-fuels to various markets; plus approximately 62 associated product terminals and petroleum pipeline transmix processing facilities serving customers across the U.S.; Terminals—consists of approximately 122 owned or operated liquids and bulk terminal facilities and approximately 10 rail transloading and materials handling facilities located throughout the U.S. and portions of Canada, which together transload, store and deliver a wide variety of bulk, petroleum, petrochemical and other liquids products for customers across the U.S. and Canada; and Kinder Morgan Canada—transports crude oil and refined petroleum products through approximately 800 miles of pipelines from Alberta, Canada to marketing terminals and refineries in British Columbia and the state of Washington; plus five associated product terminal facilities. The Company's business operations are subject to federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations relating to environmental protection, pollution and human health and safety in the U.S. and Canada.

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