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Caleres (Caleres) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.96 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Caleres Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Caleres's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $295 Mil. Caleres's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $453 Mil. Caleres's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $189 Mil. Caleres's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.96.

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

CAL' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.01   Med: 1.47   Max: 7.09
Current: 2.95

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Caleres was 7.09. The lowest was -3.01. And the median was 1.47.

CAL's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
53.81% of 840 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 2.67 vs CAL: 2.95

Caleres Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

Caleres Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -3.01 -2.75 3.20 3.21 2.95

Caleres Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 5.35 3.39 3.15 2.49 3.96

Competitive Comparison of Caleres's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Apparel Retail subindustry, Caleres'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.


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

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

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



Caleres Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Caleres'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
=(294.764 + 453.097) / 253.945
=2.94

Caleres's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
=(294.764 + 453.097) / 188.688
=3.96

* 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 (Jan. 2024) EBITDA data.


Caleres  (NYSE:CAL) 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.


Caleres Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Caleres (Caleres) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
8300 Maryland Avenue, St. Louis, MO, USA, 63105
Caleres Inc is a footwear retailer in the United States. The Company's business are organized into two reportable segments are famous Footwear and Brand Portfolio. The famous Footwear segment is comprised of famous Footwear retail stores, famousfootwear.com and famousfootwear.ca. The Brand Portfolio segment offers retailers and consumers a carefully cultivated portfolio of top brands. This segment is comprised of wholesale operations that designs, develops, sources, manufactures, markets and distributes branded, licensed and private-label footwear to online retailers, national chains, department stores, mass merchandisers and independent retailers, as well as Company owned famous Footwear, Sam Edelman, Naturalizer and Allen Edmonds stores and e-commerce businesses.
Executives
John W Schmidt officer: Div Pres, Whls Better & Image 693 FIFTH AVENUE, 11TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Willis Hill officer: Chief Information Officer 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Mark A Schmitt officer: SVP, CIO 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Todd E Hasty officer: VP, Chief Accounting Officer 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Diane M Sullivan officer: President, Brown Shoe Co., Inc 78 COUNTRY CLUB WAY, IPSWICH MA 01938
Douglas Koch officer: SVP & Chief Talent Officer 5032 WESTMINISTER PL, ST. LOUIS MO 63108
Daniel R Freidman officer: Div Pres, Whls Prod & Sorcing 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, SAINT LOUIS MO 63105
Carla C Hendra director 885 WEST END AVE. 12B, NEW YORK NY 10025
Jack Calandra officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer 6380 ROGERDALE RD., HOUSTON TX 77072
Bruce K Thorn director 15885 SPRAGUE RD, STRONGSVILLE OH 44136-1799
Jennifer Olsen officer: Chief Marketing Officer 8300 MARYLAND AVE., ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Ken Hannah officer: SVP, Chief Financial Officer C/O MEMC ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, INC., P O BOX 8, ST, PETERS MO 63376
Michael R Edwards officer: Div President, Famous Footwear 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Thomas C Burke officer: VP, General Counsel 8300 MARYLAND AVENUE, ST. LOUIS MO 63105
Patricia G Mcginnis director 4827 V STREET, WASHINGTON DC 20007