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Benson Hill (Benson Hill) Debt-to-EBITDA : -2.03 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Benson Hill Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Benson Hill's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $60.4 Mil. Benson Hill's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $85.4 Mil. Benson Hill's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-71.7 Mil. Benson Hill's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -2.03.

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 Benson Hill's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

BHIL' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.39   Med: -2.11   Max: -1.3
Current: -2.66

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Benson Hill was -1.30. The lowest was -3.39. And the median was -2.11.

BHIL's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 178 companies
in the Agriculture industry
Industry Median: 1.975 vs BHIL: -2.66

Benson Hill Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Benson Hill'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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Benson Hill Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Benson Hill Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
- -1.30 -1.56 -3.39 -2.66

Benson Hill Quarterly Data
Dec19 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 -2.47 6.99 -1.31 -7.44 -2.03

Competitive Comparison of Benson Hill's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Benson Hill'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.


Benson Hill's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Agriculture Industry

For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Benson Hill's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Benson Hill Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Benson Hill'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
=(60.395 + 85.435) / -54.765
=-2.66

Benson Hill's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
=(60.395 + 85.435) / -71.704
=-2.03

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Benson Hill  (NYSE:BHIL) 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.


Benson Hill Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Benson Hill (Benson Hill) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1001 North Warson Road, Saint Louis, MO, USA, 63132
Benson Hill Inc is a food technology company. It operates in one segment Ingredients. The ingredients segment is currently focused on commercializing soybean and yellow pea products, including soy-based specialty vegetable oils, aquaculture and animal feed, and ultra-high protein soy-based ingredients that have the potential to eliminate costly water and energy-intensive processing associated with producing products for the food and feed markets, alleviating supply constraints to help bring plant-based proteins to scale.
Executives
Bruce Tyler Bennett officer: President, Ingredients C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Richard L Mack director 9590 SKY LANE, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55347
Yevgeny Fundler officer: Chief Legal Officer, other: Corporate Secretary 1001 NORTH WARSON ROAD, ST. LOUIS MO 63132
Jason Bull officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Dean P Freeman officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O BENSON HILL, INC.,1001 N WARSON RD, SAINT LOUIS MO 63132
Matthew B. Crisp director, officer: President and CEO C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Montgomery Molly director 739 MILLER AVENUE, MILL VALLEY CA 94941
David J. Lee director C/O ZYNGA INC., 699 8TH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Deann L Brunts director, officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O B&G FOODS, INC., 4 GATEHALL DRIVE, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Adrienne Elsner director ONE OWENS CORNING PKWY, TOLEDO OH 43659
Linda Whitley-taylor director C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 NORTH WARSON ROAD, SAINT LOUIS MO 63132
Stephan Dolezalek director C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
Daniel Jacobi director C/O BENSON HILL, INC., 1001 N. WARSON RD., ST. LEWIS MO 63132
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