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ITC Holdings (ITC Holdings) EBITDA : $713 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2016)


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What is ITC Holdings EBITDA?

ITC Holdings's EBITDA for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $199 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $713 Mil.

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ITC Holdings's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $1.30. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $4.63.

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ITC Holdings EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for ITC Holdings's 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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ITC Holdings EBITDA Chart

ITC Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
EBITDA
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ITC Holdings Quarterly Data
Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16
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Competitive Comparison of ITC Holdings's EBITDA

For the Utilities - Regulated Electric subindustry, ITC Holdings's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-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.


ITC Holdings's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, ITC Holdings's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where ITC Holdings's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

ITC Holdings's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

ITC Holdings's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Dec. 2015, ITC Holdings's EBITDA was $705 Mil.

ITC Holdings's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as

ITC Holdings's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Jun. 2016, ITC Holdings's EBITDA was $199 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $713 Mil.

* 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.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

ITC Holdings  (NYSE:ITC) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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ITC Holdings (ITC Holdings) Business Description

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ITC Holdings Corp was incorporated in 2002 in the State of Michigan for the purpose of acquiring ITC Transmission. The Company, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in transmission of electricity in the United States. Through its operating subsidiaries, ITCTransmission, METC, ITC Midwest and ITC Great Plains, it operates high-voltage systems in Michigan's Lower Peninsula and portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma that transmit electricity from generating stations to local distribution facilities connected to its systems. The Company operates, maintains and invests in transmission infrastructure in order to enhance system integrity and reliability, reduces transmission constraints and allows new generating resources to interconnect to its transmission systems. Its Regulated Operating Subsidiaries are independent electric transmission utilities, with rates regulated by the FERC and established on a cost-of-service model. The Company's Regulated Operating Subsidiaries earns revenues through tariff rates charged for the use of their electric transmission systems by its customers, which include investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, power marketers and alternative energy suppliers. The Company's operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations, which impose limitations on the discharge of pollutants into the environment, establish standards for the management, treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of hazardous materials and of solid and hazardous wastes, and impose obligations to investigate and remediate contamination in certain circumstances.
Executives
Edward G Jepsen director C/O AMPHENOL CORPORATION, 358 HALL AVENUE, WALLINGFORD CT 06492
Rejji P Hayes officer: EVP & CFO ONE ENERGY PLAZA, JACKSON MI 49201
Thomas G Stephens director 777 JOSLYN ROAD, MC 483 720 540, PONTIAC MI 48340-2925
Dave R Lopez director 100 N BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73102
Lee C Stewart director PO BOX 816, SHARON CT 06069
Chris Franklin director 762 W.LANCASTER AVE, BRYN MAWR PA 19010
Cameron M Bready officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 3550 LENOX RD, ATLANTA GA 30326
Watts J C Jr director

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