Debt payback: net debt over free cash flow, in years

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Resilience — Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

How it is worked out

Net debt ÷ free cash flow, in years

How long the current free cash flow would take to clear the debt. A company holding net cash repays instantly and takes the top mark.

How to read it

low is good; net cash earns the top mark outright

Which figures it needs

Computed from 8 figures taken from the filing:

ocf
capex
debt_long
debt_short
finance_lease_long
finance_lease_short
cash
short_term_investments

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities
NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities
CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment
PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets
PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipmentExcludingInterestCapitalized
PaymentsToAcquireOtherPropertyPlantAndEquipment
PaymentsToAcquireOtherProductiveAssets
PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities
PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentIntangibleAssetsOtherThanGoodwillInvestmentPropertyAndOtherNoncurrentAssets
LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations
LongTermDebtNoncurrent
LongTermDebt
NotesPayableNoncurrent
LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
LongTermDebtCurrent
DebtCurrent
ShortTermBorrowings
NotesPayableCurrent
FinanceLeaseLiabilityNoncurrent
FinanceLeaseLiabilityCurrent
CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue
CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents
CashAndCashEquivalents
ShortTermInvestments
AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtSecuritiesCurrent
MarketableSecuritiesCurrent
OtherShortTermInvestments
OtherCurrentFinancialAssets

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Resilience on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.