• Associated British Foods average debt/equity ratio for 2023 was 0.29, a 6.45% decline from 2022.
• Associated British Foods average debt/equity ratio for 2022 was 0.31, a 6.06% decline from 2021.
• Associated British Foods average debt/equity ratio for 2021 was 0.33, a 15.38% decline from 2020.

Debt/equity ratio can be defined as a measure of a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its long-term debt by stockholders' equity.