Henkel AG KGaA (Henkel AG KGaA) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 0.89 (As of Dec. 2023)

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

Henkel AG KGaA's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $576 Mil. Henkel AG KGaA's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2,578 Mil. Henkel AG KGaA's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,564 Mil. Henkel AG KGaA's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.88.

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 Henkel AG KGaA's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

HENKY' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.28 Med: 1.12 Max: 1.36
Current: 0.99

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Henkel AG KGaA was 1.36. The lowest was 0.28. And the median was 1.12.

HENKY's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
68.33% of 1421 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.14 vs HENKY: 0.99

Henkel AG KGaA Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Henkel AG KGaA's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Henkel AG KGaA Annual Data

Trend

Dec14

Dec15

Dec16

Dec17

Dec18

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Dec23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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1.23

1.18

1.08

1.36

0.99

Henkel AG KGaA Semi-Annual Data
	Jun14	Dec14	Jun15	Dec15	Jun16	Dec16	Jun17	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.14	1.14	1.31	1.15	0.89

Competitive Comparison

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Henkel AG KGaA'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.

Henkel AG KGaA Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Henkel AG KGaA's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Henkel AG KGaA Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Henkel AG KGaA'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
	=	(575.791	+	2577.972)	/	3187.568
	=	0.99

Henkel AG KGaA'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
	=	(575.791	+	2577.972)	/	3563.794
	=	0.88

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 two times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.

Henkel AG KGaA (OTCPK:HENKY) 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.

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Henkel AG KGaA (Henkel AG KGaA) Business Description

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Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

HENOY:USA HENOF:USA 1HEN:Italy HEN3:Italy HEN3d:UK 0IZC:UK 0IZ8:UK HEN1:Germany HENE:Germany HEN3:Germany HEN:Germany HEN3:Germany HEN:Germany HEN3:Germany HEN:Germany HEN3:Germany HEN:Germany HEN:Austria

Address

Henkelstrasse 67, Duesseldorf, NW, DEU, 40589

Website

https://www.henkel.com

Two distinct customer groups constitute Henkel. The consumer segment (around 50% of consolidated 2022 sales) is laundry and home care, including the Persil and Purex laundry detergent brands, and beauty care, including the Schwarzkopf brand in hair care and the Dial brand in hand soap. The adhesives technologies segment makes up the remaining 50% of sales. Sales from Europe accounted for 42% of the firm's consolidated total in 2022, while Asia-Pacific and North America accounted for 17% and 27%, respectively.