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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (FRA:NLV) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.78 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €18,940 Mil. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €48,972 Mil. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €24,453 Mil. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.78.

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 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:NLV' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.25   Med: 1.46   Max: 2.99
Current: 2.99

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone was 2.99. The lowest was 1.25. And the median was 1.46.

FRA:NLV's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
62.78% of 317 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 2.24 vs FRA:NLV: 2.99

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Nippon Telegraph & Telephone'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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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.40 1.54 2.61 2.41 2.63

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 2.56 3.22 2.49 2.84 2.78

Competitive Comparison of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone'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.


Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(14292.934 + 49647.833) / 24315.138
=2.63

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone'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
=(18940.254 + 48971.742) / 24453.088
=2.78

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


Nippon Telegraph & Telephone  (FRA:NLV) 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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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (FRA:NLV) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5-1, Otemachi 1-Chome, Otemachi First Square, East Tower, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JPN, 100-8116
NTT owns NTT DoCoMo, the largest wireless operator in Japan, with 87.5 million subscribers. It also owns NTT East and NTT West, the two regional incumbent fixed-line operators in Japan, with about 12.1 million traditional fixed-line and 23.5 million broadband lines (around 72% of which are wholesaled). The firm also provides IT and communications systems integration via NTT Communications and 52.4%-owned NTT Data.

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