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Toople (LSE:TOOP) Debt-to-EBITDA : -2.25 (As of Mar. 2022)


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What is Toople Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Toople's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was £1.74 Mil. Toople's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was £0.37 Mil. Toople's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was £-0.93 Mil. Toople's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 was -2.25.

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

LSE:TOOP's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Telecommunication Services industry.
Industry Median: 2.1
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Toople Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Toople'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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Toople Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Toople Annual Data
Trend Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -0.40 -0.43 - -0.66 -2.09

Toople Semi-Annual Data
Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22
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 -0.64 -0.56 -1.40 -3.26 -2.25

Competitive Comparison of Toople's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Toople'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.


Toople's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

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

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



Toople Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Toople's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2021 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.04 + 1.797) / -0.881
=-2.09

Toople's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(1.737 + 0.367) / -0.934
=-2.25

* 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 two times the quarterly (Mar. 2022) EBITDA data.


Toople  (LSE:TOOP) 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.


Toople Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Toople (LSE:TOOP) Business Description

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Address
The Nexus Building, P.O. Box 501, Broadway, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, GBR, SG6 9BL
Toople PLC provides telecommunication services in the United Kingdom. The company's services include business broadband, fiber, EFM and Ethernet data services, business mobile phones, cloud PBX and SIP Trunking, and traditional services. It provides business broadband packages such as Toople Broadband ADSL, Toople Fibre Lite FTTC, and Toople Fibre XL. The revenue is derived from the provision of telephony services.

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