Kinder Morgan President Kim Dang said on Sept. 4 that the company expects to reduce its debt-to-EBITDA ratio to around 4.5, consistent with where management expects to end the year. Despite this, the company's leverage ratio is still above Joel Tillinghast's safe threshold of 4 and underperforms 73% of global competitors. GuruFocus ranks Kinder Morgan's financial strength 4 out of 10, suggesting moderate financial distress.