Staples (Staples) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.33 (As of Jul. 2017)

Staples Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Staples Annual Data
	Trend	Jan08	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					2.17	0.67	1.45	0.89	6.35

Staples Quarterly Data
	Oct12	Jan13	Apr13	Jul13	Oct13	Jan14	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17	Jul17
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-3.97	0.65	0.97	1.01	1.33

Competitive Comparison of Staples's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Staples'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.

Staples's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Staples's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Staples Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Staples's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2017 is calculated as

Staples's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is calculated as

* 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 (Jul. 2017) EBITDA data.

Staples  (NAS:SPLS) 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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