Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 1.14 (As of Jul. 2023)

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

Walmart's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was $9,568 Mil. Walmart's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was $55,233 Mil. Walmart's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was $57,096 Mil. Walmart's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 was 1.13.

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

WMT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.38 Med: 1.75 Max: 2.37
Current: 1.87

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Walmart was 2.37. The lowest was 1.38. And the median was 1.75.

WMT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
66.94% of 242 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.78 vs WMT: 1.87

Walmart Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Walmart'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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Walmart Annual Data

Trend

Jan14

Jan15

Jan16

Jan17

Jan18

Jan19

Jan20

Jan21

Jan22

Jan23

Debt-to-EBITDA

2.37

2.15

1.86

1.83

1.96

Walmart Quarterly Data
	Oct18	Jan19	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23
Debt-to-EBITDA																1.66	8.57	1.20	2.58	1.14

Competitive Comparison

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart'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.

Annual Data Quarterly Data

Walmart Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

* The bar in red indicates where Walmart's Debt-to-EBITDA falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Debt-to-EBITDA's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Walmart Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Walmart's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(6603	+	52320)	/	30089
	=	1.96

Walmart's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(9568	+	55233)	/	57096
	=	1.13

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 (Jul. 2023) EBITDA data.

Walmart (NYSE:WMT) 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.

Walmart Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Business Description

Industry

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Traded in Other Exchanges

WMT:Peru WMT:Mexico WMTd:UK 0R1W:UK WMTD:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Germany WMT:Chile WMT:Canada WALM34:Brazil WMT:Austria WMT:Argentina

Address

702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716

Website

https://stock.walmart.com

Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,700 stores in the United States (5,300 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 stores globally. Walmart generated over $420 billion in domestic namesake sales last year, with Sam's Club contributing another $84 billion to the firm's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $100 billion in sales. The company serves around 240 million customers globally.

Executives

John D Rainey	officer: Executive Vice President	C/O PAYPAL HOLDINGS, INC., 2211 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Randall L Stephenson	director	208 S. AKARD ST., DALLAS TX 75202
Donna Morris	officer: Executive Vice President	345 PARK AVENUE, SAN JOSE CA 95110
Kathryn J. Mclay	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Suresh Kumar	officer: Chief Technology Officer	860 W. CALIFORNIA AVE., SUNNYVALE CA 94086
Cesar Conde	director	ONE OWENS CORNING PARKWAY, TOLEDO OH 43659
Stephen Easterbrook	director	MCDONALD'S CORPORATION, 110 NORTH CARPENTER STREET, CHICAGO IL 60607
Rachel L Brand	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Sarah Friar	director	C/O NEXTDOOR HOLDINGS, INC., 420 TAYLOR STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102
Judith J Mckenna	officer: Executive Vice President	702 S.W. 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Carla A Harris	director	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
John R. Furner	officer: Executive Vice President	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
David Chojnowski	officer: Senior Vice President	5505 BLUE LAGOON DRIVE, MIAMI FL 33126
Marc E. Lore	officer: Executive Vice President	443 GREENWICH STREET, PHA, NEW YORK NY 10013
Steuart L Walton	director	702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716