SDI Group (LSE:SDI) Debt-to-Equity : 0.54 (As of Oct. 2024)

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What is SDI Group Debt-to-Equity?

SDI Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was £0.95 Mil. SDI Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was £24.17 Mil. SDI Group's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was £46.70 Mil. SDI Group's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was 0.54.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The historical rank and industry rank for SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SDI' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.08 Med: 0.27 Max: 0.64
Current: 0.54

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of SDI Group was 0.64. The lowest was 0.08. And the median was 0.27.

LSE:SDI's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
68.97% of 2182 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 0.29 vs LSE:SDI: 0.54

SDI Group Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity can be seen below:

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SDI Group Debt-to-Equity Chart

SDI Group Annual Data

Trend

Apr15

Apr16

Apr17

Apr18

Apr19

Apr20

Apr21

Apr22

Apr23

Apr24

Debt-to-Equity

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0.61

0.21

0.32

0.55

0.47

SDI Group Semi-Annual Data
	Apr15	Oct15	Apr16	Oct16	Apr17	Oct17	Apr18	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22	Apr23	Oct23	Apr24	Oct24
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.64	0.55	0.50	0.47	0.54

Competitive Comparison of SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, SDI Group'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.

SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SDI Group's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

SDI Group Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

SDI Group's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2024 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(0.841	+	20.636)	/	45.416
	=	0.47

SDI Group's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(0.953	+	24.173)	/	46.698
	=	0.54

SDI Group (LSE:SDI) 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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SDI Group PLC designs and manufactures scientific and technology products for use by the life science, healthcare, astronomy, consumer manufacturing, and art conservation markets through Synoptics, the Artemis, the Opus instruments, and Astles Control systems brands. The Digital Imaging segment incorporates the Synoptics brands Syngene, Synbiosis, Synoptics Health and Fistreem, the Atik brands Atik Cameras, Opus, and Quantum Scientific Imaging, and the Graticules Optics business. The Sensors & Control segment combines Sentek, Astles Control Systems, Applied Thermal Control, Thermal Exchange, MPB Industries, and Chell Instruments businesses. It operates in the UK, Europe, America, Rest of Asia, and Rest of the world segments. It derives majority of its revenues from the United Kingdom.