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Pineapple Financial (Pineapple Financial) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.88 (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Pineapple Financial Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Pineapple Financial's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $0.69 Mil. Pineapple Financial's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $0.90 Mil. Pineapple Financial's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $-1.80 Mil. Pineapple Financial's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was -0.88.

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

PAPL' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.46   Med: -0.67   Max: -0.42
Current: -0.68

During the past 3 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Pineapple Financial was -0.42. The lowest was -1.46. And the median was -0.67.

PAPL's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 32 companies
in the Banks industry
Industry Median: 10.23 vs PAPL: -0.68

Pineapple Financial Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pineapple Financial'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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Pineapple Financial Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Pineapple Financial Annual Data
Trend Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Debt-to-EBITDA
-1.46 -0.42 -0.67

Pineapple Financial Quarterly Data
Aug21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.45 -0.35 -0.84 -0.36 -0.88

Competitive Comparison of Pineapple Financial's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Mortgage Finance subindustry, Pineapple Financial'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.


Pineapple Financial's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Banks Industry

For the Banks industry and Financial Services sector, Pineapple Financial's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pineapple Financial Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Pineapple Financial's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.568 + 0.97) / -2.312
=-0.67

Pineapple Financial's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.688 + 0.896) / -1.804
=-0.88

* 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 (Feb. 2024) EBITDA data.


Pineapple Financial  (AMEX:PAPL) 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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Pineapple Financial (Pineapple Financial) Business Description

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111 Gordon Baker Road, Unit 200, North York, Toronto, ON, CAN, M2H 3R1
Pineapple Financial Inc is a Canada-based mortgage technology and brokerage company that provides mortgage brokerage services and technology solutions to Canadian mortgage agents, brokers, sub-brokers, brokerages, and consumers. Through its data-driven systems together with cloud-based tools, it offers advantages in the Canadian mortgage industry relative to alternative mortgage broker arrangements and also provides back office services.