Lords Group Trading (LSE:LORD) Debt-to-EBITDA : 6.05 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Lords Group Trading Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Lords Group Trading's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £17.3 Mil. Lords Group Trading's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £82.2 Mil. Lords Group Trading's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £16.4 Mil. Lords Group Trading's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.05.

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 Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:LORD' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.13 Med: 4.57 Max: 16.2
Current: 4.34

During the past 6 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Lords Group Trading was 16.20. The lowest was 2.13. And the median was 4.57.

LSE:LORD's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
78.74% of 127 companies
in the Industrial Distribution industry
Industry Median: 2.08 vs LSE:LORD: 4.34

Lords Group Trading Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Lords Group Trading Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Lords Group Trading Annual Data

Trend

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Dec19

Dec20

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Dec22

Dec23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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16.20

4.79

2.13

2.74

4.34

Lords Group Trading Semi-Annual Data
	Dec18	Dec19	Jun20	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.22	2.73	2.53	3.13	6.05

Competitive Comparison of Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, Lords Group Trading'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.

Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Distribution Industry

For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.

Lords Group Trading Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Lords Group Trading's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year 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
	=	(17.322	+	82.192)	/	22.917
	=	4.34

Lords Group Trading'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
	=	(17.322	+	82.192)	/	16.442
	=	6.05

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 two times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.

Lords Group Trading (LSE:LORD) 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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Lords Group Trading (LSE:LORD) Business Description

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12-15 Hanger Green, 2nd Floor, London, GBR, W5 3EL

Website

https://www.lordsgrouptradingplc.co.uk

Lords Group Trading PLC is a distributor of building, plumbing, heating, and DIY goods. The group principally sells to local tradesmen, small to medium-sized plumbing and heating merchants, construction companies and retails directly to the public. Its operating two divisions include Merchanting: supplies building materials and DIY goods through its network of merchant businesses and online platform capabilities; Heating and Plumbing: a distributor in the UK of heating and plumbing products to a UK network of independent merchants, installers and the general public. It focused on the growing Repairs, Maintenance, and Improvement (RMI) market, and construction market. Its main clients are local tradesmen, hardware stores, plumbing and heating merchants and construction companies.

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