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Booking Holdings (Booking Holdings) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 4.66 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Booking Holdings's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,961 Mil. Booking Holdings's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $12,822 Mil. Booking Holdings's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,176 Mil. Booking Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.65.

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

BKNG' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.18   Med: 2   Max: 7.91
Current: 2.1

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Booking Holdings was 7.91. The lowest was 1.18. And the median was 2.00.

BKNG's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
58.55% of 620 companies
in the Travel & Leisure industry
Industry Median: 2.875 vs BKNG: 2.10

Booking Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Booking Holdings'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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Booking Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.32 7.91 4.70 2.65 2.10

Booking Holdings 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 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.85 4.81 1.81 1.00 4.66

Competitive Comparison

For the Travel Services subindustry, Booking Holdings'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.


Booking Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Booking Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Booking Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Booking Holdings'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
=(1961 + 12822) / 7043
=2.10

Booking Holdings'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
=(1961 + 12822) / 3176
=4.65

* 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.


Booking Holdings  (NAS:BKNG) 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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Booking Holdings (Booking Holdings) Business Description

Address
800 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, CT, USA, 06854
Booking is the world's largest online travel agency by sales, offering booking and payment services for hotel and alternative accommodation rooms, airline tickets, rental cars, restaurant reservations, cruises, experiences, and other vacation packages. The company operates a number of branded travel booking sites, including Booking.com, Agoda, OpenTable, and Rentalcars.com, and has expanded into travel media with the acquisitions of Kayak and Momondo. Transaction fees for online bookings account for the bulk of revenue and profits.
Executives
Glenn D Fogel officer: Hd Worldwide Strat & Planning PRICELINE.COM INCORPORATED, 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
David I Goulden officer: Chief Financial Officer 176 SOUTH STREET, HOPKINTON MA 01748
Radakovich Lynn Vojvodich director C/O BOOKING HOLDINGS INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
Nicholas Read director C/O BOOKING HOLDINGS INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
Susana D'emic officer: SVP, CAO & Controller C/O TIME INC., 225 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10281
Paulo Pisano officer: Chief Human Resources Officer 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
Larry Quinlan director 2225 LAWSON LANE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Mylod Robert J Jr officer: Vice Chairman
Sumit Singh director C/O CHEWY, INC., 7700 WEST SUNRISE BLVD, PLANTATION FL 33322
Peter J Millones officer: Executive VP, General Counsel
Jeffery H Boyd director C/O ASPEN GROVE CAPITAL, LLC, PO BOX 9389, AVON CO 81620
Dijk Bob Van director C/O BOOKING HOLDINGS INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
Gillian Tans officer: President & COO, Booking.com C/O THE PRICELINE GROUP INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854
Vanessa Ames Wittman director C/O MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC., 1166 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10036
Wei Hopeman director C/O BOOKING HOLDINGS INC., 800 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, NORWALK CT 06854