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Elma Electronic AG (XSWX:ELMN) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.50 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Elma Electronic AG Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Elma Electronic AG's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF4.5 Mil. Elma Electronic AG's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF18.5 Mil. Elma Electronic AG's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was CHF15.3 Mil. Elma Electronic AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.50.

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 Elma Electronic AG's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

XSWX:ELMN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.67   Med: 2.78   Max: 4.37
Current: 2.24

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Elma Electronic AG was 4.37. The lowest was 1.67. And the median was 2.78.

XSWX:ELMN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
56.35% of 1739 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.79 vs XSWX:ELMN: 2.24

Elma Electronic AG Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Elma Electronic AG'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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Elma Electronic AG Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Elma Electronic AG Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.22 2.67 1.67 2.25 2.24

Elma Electronic AG Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.33 3.22 1.73 4.64 1.50

Competitive Comparison of Elma Electronic AG's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Elma Electronic AG'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.


Elma Electronic AG's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Elma Electronic AG's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Elma Electronic AG Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Elma Electronic AG'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
=(4.45 + 18.5) / 10.244
=2.24

Elma Electronic AG'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
=(4.45 + 18.5) / 15.316
=1.50

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Elma Electronic AG  (XSWX:ELMN) 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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Elma Electronic AG (XSWX:ELMN) Business Description

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Address
Hofstrasse 93, Wetzikon, CHE, 8620
Elma Electronic AG is a Switzerland-based company. It acts as a manufacturer of electronic packaging products for the embedded systems market from components, backplanes, storage boards and chassis platforms to fully integrated systems. The product line of the company includes embedded boards such as mass storage, ethernet and PCIe switches, architecture solutions, embedded computing systems, system accessories, and rack level services. It also offers engineering services, contract manufacturing, system integration, customization and other services.

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