SThree (LSE:STEM) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.30 (As of Nov. 2023)

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What is SThree Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

SThree's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £11 Mil. SThree's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £18 Mil. SThree's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £95 Mil. SThree's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was 0.30.

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

LSE:STEM' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.07 Med: 0.4 Max: 1.01
Current: 0.31

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of SThree was 1.01. The lowest was 0.07. And the median was 0.40.

LSE:STEM's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
83.73% of 830 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 1.85 vs LSE:STEM: 0.31

SThree Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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SThree Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

SThree Annual Data

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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0.07

0.70

0.45

0.35

0.31

SThree Semi-Annual Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.43	0.29	0.39	0.33	0.30

Competitive Comparison of SThree's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Staffing & Employment Services subindustry, SThree'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.

SThree's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SThree's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

SThree Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

SThree's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(11.297	+	17.72)	/	94.527
	=	0.31

SThree's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(11.297	+	17.72)	/	95.428
	=	0.30

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 (Nov. 2023) EBITDA data.

SThree (LSE:STEM) 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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SThree PLC is involved in the staffing business. It provides contract and permanent recruitment services. The company operates in information and communication, engineering, energy, life sciences, banking, and finance sectors. It provides its service through various brands such as computer future, progressive, Huxley, real, orgtel, jpgray, Newington international and enterprise partners. The company operates in the UK, Ireland, Continental Europe, America, Asia Pacific and the Middle east.