British American Tobacco (LSE:BATS) Debt-to-Equity : 0.74 (As of Dec. 2024)

British American Tobacco Debt-to-Equity Chart

British American Tobacco Annual Data
	Trend	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19	Dec20	Dec21	Dec22	Dec23	Dec24
Debt-to-Equity		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					0.70	0.59	0.57	0.76	0.74

British American Tobacco Semi-Annual Data
	Jun15	Dec15	Jun16	Dec16	Jun17	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.57	0.58	0.76	0.74	0.74

Competitive Comparison of British American Tobacco's Debt-to-Equity

For the Tobacco subindustry, British American Tobacco's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity 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.

British American Tobacco's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Tobacco Products Industry

For the Tobacco Products industry and Consumer Defensive sector, British American Tobacco's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where British American Tobacco's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

British American Tobacco Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

British American Tobacco's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

British American Tobacco's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

* 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.

British American Tobacco  (LSE:BATS) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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