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Nippon Steel (Nippon Steel) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.56 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Nippon Steel Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Nippon Steel's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $5,769 Mil. Nippon Steel's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $15,126 Mil. Nippon Steel's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $8,150 Mil. Nippon Steel's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.56.

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

NISTF' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.19   Med: 3.37   Max: 131.5
Current: 2.69

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Nippon Steel was 131.50. The lowest was 2.19. And the median was 3.37.

NISTF's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
50.3% of 493 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 2.66 vs NISTF: 2.69

Nippon Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Nippon Steel'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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Nippon Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Nippon Steel Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.49 131.50 8.32 2.26 2.19

Nippon Steel 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 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 2.10 3.15 2.31 2.84 2.56

Competitive Comparison of Nippon Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Steel subindustry, Nippon Steel'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.


Nippon Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Nippon Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Nippon Steel Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Nippon Steel's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(3015.225 + 17179.771) / 9216.433
=2.19

Nippon Steel'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
=(5768.762 + 15125.922) / 8149.796
=2.56

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Nippon Steel  (OTCPK:NISTF) 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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Nippon Steel (Nippon Steel) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
6-1, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 100-8071
Nippon Steel Corporation, or NS, is the largest steel producer in Japan and one of the top five producers globally. NS supplies steel products such as steel sheets, steel plates, pipes, tubes, bars, wire rods, and stainless steels. It is mainly exposed to the auto, construction, and energy sectors. Steelmaking accounts for around 85%-90% of its revenue, while the remainder stems from engineering and construction, chemicals, new materials, and system solutions. Around 35%-40% of its revenue is from exports.