Ulta Beauty (WBO:ULTA) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.37 (As of Oct. 2024)

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What is Ulta Beauty Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Ulta Beauty's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was €445 Mil. Ulta Beauty's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was €1,520 Mil. Ulta Beauty's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was €1,434 Mil. Ulta Beauty's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was 1.37.

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 Ulta Beauty's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

WBO:ULTA' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.99 Med: 1.17 Max: 2.86
Current: 1.16

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Ulta Beauty was 2.86. The lowest was 0.99. And the median was 1.17.

WBO:ULTA's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
76.93% of 854 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 2.745 vs WBO:ULTA: 1.16

Ulta Beauty Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Ulta Beauty Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Ulta Beauty Annual Data

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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1.59

2.86

1.17

1.01

0.99

Ulta Beauty Quarterly Data
	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24	Apr24	Jul24	Oct24
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.34	0.82	1.01	1.21	1.37

Competitive Comparison of Ulta Beauty's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Ulta Beauty'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.

Ulta Beauty's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Ulta Beauty's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Ulta Beauty Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Ulta Beauty's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(260.548	+	1493.835)	/	1772.088
	=	0.99

Ulta Beauty's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(444.941	+	1520.499)	/	1433.576
	=	1.37

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 (Oct. 2024) EBITDA data.

Ulta Beauty (WBO:ULTA) 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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1000 Remington Boulevard, Suite 120, Bolingbrook, IL, USA, 60440

Website

https://www.ulta.com

With 1,385 stores at the end of fiscal 2023 and a partnership with Target, Ulta Beauty is the largest specialized beauty retailer in the US. The firm offers makeup (41% of 2023 sales), fragrances, skin care (19% of sales), and hair care products (19% of sales), and bath and body items. Ulta offers private-label products and more than 600 individual brands. It also offers salon services, including hair, makeup, skin, and brow services, in all stores. Most Ulta stores are approximately 10,000 square feet and are in suburban strip centers. Ulta was founded in 1990 and is based in Bolingbrook, Illinois.