Sunbelt Rentals Holdings (LSE:SUNB) Debt-to-EBITDA : N/A (As of Jul. 2026)

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LSE:SUNB Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Inc LSE:SUNB
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What is Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was £409 Mil. Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was £5,949 Mil. Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was £3,830 Mil. Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 was 1.66.

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 Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SUNB' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.6   Med: 2.03   Max: 2.74
Current: 2.74

During the past 4 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Sunbelt Rentals Holdings was 2.74. The lowest was 1.60. And the median was 2.03.

LSE:SUNB's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
66.83% of 835 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 1.67 vs LSE:SUNB: 2.74

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings  (LSE:SUNB) 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.

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Sunbelt Rentals Holdings'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.

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Annual Data
Trend Apr23 Apr24 Apr25 Apr26
Debt-to-EBITDA
2.07 2.36 2.10 2.34

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Quarterly Data
Jan25 Apr25 Jul25 Jan26 Apr26 Jul26
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LSE:SUNB vs AER, UHAL, R: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, Sunbelt Rentals Holdings'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.

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA vs Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.


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Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(422.41601354086 + 5283.8797512603) / 3334.4651145512
=1.71

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(408.69403678246 + 5949.0990154189) / 3829.6914512456
=1.66

* 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 (Jul. 2026) EBITDA data.

Sunbelt Rentals Holdings Business Description

Address 100 Cheapside, London, GBR, EC2V 6DT
Sunbelt Rentals (formerly UK-based Ashtead Group) is the number two equipment rental company in the US (11% market share), with a smaller presence in Canada and the UK. Sunbelt operates a rental fleet of just over $15 billion across a network of 1,200 stores in the US, nearly CAD 2 billion of fleet and 135 stores in Canada, and GBP 1.1 billion and 190 stores in the UK. The company has experienced rapid growth over the past decade as its customers increasingly turn to rental versus owning equipment outright. The general tool business has been augmented by the Specialty Rental business, which has grown to 30% of the mix. Revenue is now greater than 50% nonconstruction, with the remainder focused more directly on commercial construction.
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