The Walt Disney Co (XTER:WDP) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 2.57 (As of Dec. 2023)

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

The Walt Disney Co's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €5,582 Mil. The Walt Disney Co's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €38,150 Mil. The Walt Disney Co's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €17,027 Mil. The Walt Disney Co's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.57.

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 The Walt Disney Co's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

XTER:WDP' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1 Med: 1.97 Max: 12.08
Current: 3.61

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of The Walt Disney Co was 12.08. The lowest was 1.00. And the median was 1.97.

XTER:WDP's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
70.77% of 674 companies
in the Media - Diversified industry
Industry Median: 1.65 vs XTER:WDP: 3.61

The Walt Disney Co Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Walt Disney Co's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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The Walt Disney Co Annual Data

Trend

Sep14

Sep15

Sep16

Sep17

Sep18

Sep19

Sep20

Sep21

Sep22

Sep23

Debt-to-EBITDA

2.46

12.08

6.35

4.30

4.12

The Walt Disney Co Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA																3.41	3.08	6.89	4.28	2.57

Competitive Comparison

For the Entertainment subindustry, The Walt Disney Co'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.

The Walt Disney Co Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, The Walt Disney Co's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

The Walt Disney Co Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

The Walt Disney Co's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(4057.21	+	42694.405)	/	11348.007
	=	4.12

The Walt Disney Co'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
	=	(5581.779	+	38149.951)	/	17026.856
	=	2.57

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.

The Walt Disney Co (XTER:WDP) 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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The Walt Disney Co (XTER:WDP) Business Description

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Address

500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA, USA, 91521

Website

https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com

Disney operates in three global business segments: entertainment, sports, and experiences. Entertainment and experiences both benefit from franchises and characters the firm has created over the course of a century. Entertainment includes the ABC broadcast network, several cable television networks, and the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services. Within the segment, Disney also engages in movie and television production and distribution, with content licensed to movie theaters, other content providers, or, increasingly, kept in-house for use on Disney's own streaming platform and television networks. The sports segment houses ESPN and the ESPN+ streaming service. Experiences contains Disney's theme parks and vacation destinations, and also benefits from merchandise licensing.

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