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Rio Tinto (Rio Tinto) Debt-to-EBITDA

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

Rio Tinto's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,169 Mil. Rio Tinto's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $13,183 Mil. Rio Tinto's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $21,066 Mil. Rio Tinto's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.68.

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

RIO' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.38   Med: 0.76   Max: 4.6
Current: 0.68

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Rio Tinto was 4.60. The lowest was 0.38. And the median was 0.76.

RIO's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
72.06% of 544 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 2.065 vs RIO: 0.68

Rio Tinto Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Rio Tinto'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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Rio Tinto 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 0.86 0.68 0.38 0.48 0.68

Rio Tinto 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-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 0.44 0.45 0.60 0.67 0.68

Competitive Comparison

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Rio Tinto'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.


Rio Tinto Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Rio Tinto's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Rio Tinto Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Rio Tinto'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
=(1169 + 13183) / 21076
=0.68

Rio Tinto'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
=(1169 + 13183) / 21066
=0.68

* 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 two times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Rio Tinto  (NYSE:RIO) 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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Rio Tinto (Rio Tinto) Business Description

Address
6 St James’s Square, London, GBR, SW1Y 4AD
Rio Tinto is a global diversified miner. Iron ore is the dominant commodity, with significantly lesser contributions from copper, aluminum, diamonds, gold, and industrial minerals. The 1995 merger of RTZ and CRA, via a dual-listed structure, created the present-day company. The two operate as a single business entity, with shareholders in each company having equivalent economic and voting rights. Major assets included its Pilbara iron ore operations, a 30% stake in the Escondida copper mine, 66%-ownership of the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia, the Weipa and Gove bauxite mines in Australia, and six hydro-powered aluminum smelters in Canada.