Anglo American (LSE:AAL) Debt-to-Equity : 0.68 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Anglo American Debt-to-Equity?

Anglo American's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £1,375 Mil. Anglo American's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £11,986 Mil. Anglo American's Total Stockholders Equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £19,795 Mil. Anglo American's debt to equity for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.67.

A high debt to equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The historical rank and industry rank for Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:AAL' s Debt-to-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.38 Med: 0.52 Max: 1.08
Current: 0.68

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-Equity Ratio of Anglo American was 1.08. The lowest was 0.38. And the median was 0.52.

LSE:AAL's Debt-to-Equity is ranked worse than
81.16% of 1311 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 0.13 vs LSE:AAL: 0.68

Anglo American Debt-to-Equity Historical Data

The historical data trend for Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity 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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Anglo American Debt-to-Equity Chart

Anglo American Annual Data

Trend

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Dec20

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Dec23

Debt-to-Equity

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0.43

0.52

0.46

0.53

0.68

Anglo American 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-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.46	0.47	0.53	0.61	0.68

Competitive Comparison of Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity 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.

Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Anglo American's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

Anglo American Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

Anglo American's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(1374.6	+	11985.88)	/	19795.03
	=	0.67

Anglo American's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt to Equity	=	Total Debt			/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	Total Stockholders Equity
	=	(1374.6	+	11985.88)	/	19795.03
	=	0.67

Anglo American (LSE:AAL) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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Anglo American (LSE:AAL) Business Description

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Comparable Companies

Traded in Other Exchanges

AGL:South Africa NGLOY:USA AAUKF:USA ANM:Namibia AALl:UK NGLB:Germany AAM:Switzerland

Address

17 Charterhouse Street, London, GBR, EC1N 6RA

Website

https://www.angloamerican.com

Anglo American's mining portfolio spans many commodities and continents. Like fellow large diversified miners, Anglo has significant exposure to copper, iron ore and metallurgical coal, but it is unique among the global majors given its significant platinum group metals and diamonds output. The company accounts for about one third of the world's platinum supply and around 30% of palladium supply. Anglo also owns 85% of De Beers, in most years the world's largest supplier and marketer of rough gem diamonds by value. Anglo also plans to move back into the crop nutrients business via its Woodsmith polyhalite project in the United Kingdom.