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Salesforce (Salesforce) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.15 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Salesforce Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Salesforce's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $1,517 Mil. Salesforce's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $11,071 Mil. Salesforce's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $10,992 Mil. Salesforce's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 1.15.

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

CRM' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.26   Med: 2.38   Max: 7.13
Current: 1.26

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Salesforce was 7.13. The lowest was 1.26. And the median was 2.38.

CRM's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
54.2% of 1596 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.035 vs CRM: 1.26

Salesforce Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

Salesforce 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 2.26 1.90 3.64 2.50 1.26

Salesforce 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 1.59 1.38 1.33 1.31 1.15

Competitive Comparison of Salesforce's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce'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.


Salesforce's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Salesforce's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Salesforce Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Salesforce'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
=(1517 + 11071) / 9958
=1.26

Salesforce'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
=(1517 + 11071) / 10992
=1.15

* 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.


Salesforce  (NYSE:CRM) 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.


Salesforce Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Salesforce (Salesforce) Business Description

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Salesforce Inc provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.
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