Telestone Technologies (FRA:MSOA) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.25 (As of Dec. 2012)

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What is Telestone Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Telestone Technologies's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 was €7.42 Mil. Telestone Technologies's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 was €0.00 Mil. Telestone Technologies's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 was €-29.61 Mil. Telestone Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 was -0.25.

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 Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:MSOA's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked ^*
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.8
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Telestone Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Telestone Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Telestone Technologies Annual Data

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0.71

-0.45

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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.63	3.23	-5.35	-0.23	-0.25

Competitive Comparison of Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Telestone Technologies'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.

Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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Telestone Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Telestone Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(7.418	+	0)	/	-16.52
	=	-0.45

Telestone Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(7.418	+	0)	/	-29.608
	=	-0.25

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. 2012) EBITDA data.

Telestone Technologies (FRA:MSOA) 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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Telestone Technologies (FRA:MSOA) Business Description

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Telestone Technologies Corp was organized under the laws of the State of Colorado in February 1987 under the name Shield Enterprises, Inc. In August 2004, TSTC reincorporated in the State of Delaware under the name Telestone Technologies Corporation. It provides access network solutions in China. The company's access network solutions include the research and development and application of access-network technology. In addition to its homegrown access-network equipment, which includes repeaters, antennas, and radio-frequency peripherals, the company offers project design, project management, installation, maintenance, and other after sales services to its customers. The company offers WFDS, a next generation wireless distribution system. WFDS is an all-optical network that combines the technologies of both wireless and optical telecommunications. As of December 31, 2011, it completed 499 WFDS installations. The company designs and sells electronic equipment used to provide access-network solutions to its customers. Many of these types of equipment, including WFDS products, RFPA products, passive components and base station antennas for 2G, 3G, Broadband access and CATV networks, are specialized active microwave components designed to meet the needs of its customers.The company provides systems integration services to its customers. The primary systems integration services provided to the company's customers are project design and engineering, specifically, the development and design of indoor and outdoor wireless signal complementary coverage solutions and their applied products. The company also markets its products to 29 countries, including the United States, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Ireland, Ecuador, Mongolia, South Africa, Turkey, Indonesia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Iceland.

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