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Balfour Beatty (LSE:BBYB.PFD) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.52 (As of Jun. 2024)


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What is Balfour Beatty Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Balfour Beatty's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was £106.00 Mil. Balfour Beatty's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was £823.00 Mil. Balfour Beatty's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was £368.00 Mil. Balfour Beatty's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 2.52.

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 Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:BBYB.PFD' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -8.77   Med: 2.62   Max: 7.75
Current: 2.16

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Balfour Beatty was 7.75. The lowest was -8.77. And the median was 2.62.

LSE:BBYB.PFD's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
52.95% of 1354 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 2.32 vs LSE:BBYB.PFD: 2.16

Balfour Beatty Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Balfour Beatty'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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Balfour Beatty Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Balfour Beatty Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.63 3.71 2.62 1.71 2.45

Balfour Beatty Semi-Annual Data
Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24
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 2.47 1.31 2.00 1.99 2.52

Competitive Comparison of Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Balfour Beatty'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.


Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Balfour Beatty Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Balfour Beatty's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(163 + 816) / 399
=2.45

Balfour Beatty's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
=(106 + 823) / 368
=2.52

* 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 two times the quarterly (Jun. 2024) EBITDA data.


Balfour Beatty  (LSE:BBYB.PFD) 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.


Balfour Beatty Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Balfour Beatty Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, GBR, E14 5HU
Balfour Beatty PLC finances builds, and maintains infrastructure projects. It finances, develops, builds, maintains, and operates the increasingly complex and critical infrastructure that supports national economies and delivers projects at the heart of local communities. It operates three business segments: Construction services (majority of total revenue), Support services, and Infrastructure investments. It will invest directly in infrastructure assets also invests in real estate-type assets, in particular private residential and student accommodation assets. The majority of sales are derived from the United Kingdom and the United States.

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