Unit4 NV (FRA:UNT) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.53 (As of Dec. 2013)

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What is Unit4 NV Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Unit4 NV's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was €44.4 Mil. Unit4 NV's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was €95.8 Mil. Unit4 NV's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was €91.4 Mil. Unit4 NV's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was 1.53.

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 Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:UNT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0 Med: 0 Max: 1.53
Current: 1.53

During the past 12 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Unit4 NV was 1.53. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

FRA:UNT's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.06 vs FRA:UNT: 1.53

Unit4 NV Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Unit4 NV Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Unit4 NV Annual Data

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2.20

1.82

1.67

1.75

1.53

Unit4 NV Semi-Annual Data
	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial							2.20	1.82	1.67	1.75	1.53

Competitive Comparison of Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Unit4 NV'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.

Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.

Unit4 NV Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Unit4 NV's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(44.41	+	95.762)	/	91.401
	=	1.53

Unit4 NV's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(44.41	+	95.762)	/	91.401
	=	1.53

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 one times the quarterly (Dec. 2013) EBITDA data.

Unit4 NV (FRA:UNT) 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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Unit4 NV was founded on 1980. The Company is a cloud business software and services company that helps dynamic public sector and commercial services organizations to embrace change simply, quickly and cost effectively in a market sector that call 'Businesses Living IN Change' (BLINC). The Group incorporates a number of change embracing software brands, including UNIT4 Agresso, our flagship ERP suite for mid-sized services intensive organizations. The Company's UNIT4 Coda, best-of-class financial management software; and FinancialForce.com, the cloud enterprise applications company formed with investment from salesforce.com. Its software products and services are designed to meet the needs of an ever changing business. The Company has about 300 customers with about 80,000 active users and local installations in around 20 countries.

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