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The Travelers (XSGO:TRV) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.10 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is The Travelers Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

The Travelers's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $100 Mil. The Travelers's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $7,933 Mil. The Travelers's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $7,328 Mil. The Travelers's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 1.10.

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 The Travelers's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

XSGO:TRV' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1   Med: 1.52   Max: 1.8
Current: 1.2

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of The Travelers was 1.80. The lowest was 1.00. And the median was 1.52.

XSGO:TRV's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
53.38% of 296 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 1.085 vs XSGO:TRV: 1.20

The Travelers Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Travelers'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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The Travelers Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

The Travelers 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 1.55 1.50 1.29 1.61 1.80

The Travelers Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 2.72 0.88 1.21 2.15 1.10

Competitive Comparison of The Travelers's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, The Travelers'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.


The Travelers's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, The Travelers's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



The Travelers Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

The Travelers'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
=(100 + 7931) / 4469
=1.80

The Travelers's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(100 + 7933) / 7328
=1.10

* 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. 2024) EBITDA data.


The Travelers  (XSGO:TRV) 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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The Travelers Business Description

Address
485 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Travelers offers a broad product range and participates in both commercial and personal insurance lines. Its commercial operations offer a variety of coverage types for companies of any size but concentrate on serving midsize businesses. Its personal lines are roughly evenly split between auto and homeowners insurance. Travelers derives 6% of its premiums from foreign markets.