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Zealand Pharma AS (FRA:22Z) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.39 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Zealand Pharma AS Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Zealand Pharma AS's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was €2.14 Mil. Zealand Pharma AS's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was €50.10 Mil. Zealand Pharma AS's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was €-135.62 Mil. Zealand Pharma AS's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -0.39.

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 Zealand Pharma AS's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:22Z' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -4.22   Med: -0.56   Max: -0.15
Current: -0.41

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Zealand Pharma AS was -0.15. The lowest was -4.22. And the median was -0.56.

FRA:22Z's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 273 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 1.45 vs FRA:22Z: -0.41

Zealand Pharma AS Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Zealand Pharma AS'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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Zealand Pharma AS Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Zealand Pharma AS 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 -0.15 -0.21 -1.11 -0.56 -0.18

Zealand Pharma AS Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 0.36 -0.12 -0.45 -0.42 -0.39

Competitive Comparison of Zealand Pharma AS's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Zealand Pharma AS'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.


Zealand Pharma AS's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Zealand Pharma AS's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Zealand Pharma AS Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Zealand Pharma AS'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
=(2.235 + 13.762) / -88.401
=-0.18

Zealand Pharma AS's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(2.137 + 50.1) / -135.616
=-0.39

* 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 (Sep. 2024) EBITDA data.


Zealand Pharma AS  (FRA:22Z) 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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Zealand Pharma AS Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Sydmarken 11, Soborg, DNK, DK-2860
Zealand Pharma AS is a biotechnology company. It is focused on the discovery, design, and development of peptide-based medicines. The company's product pipeline includes three product candidates in clinical development: glepaglutide, which is being developed to treat short bowel syndrome or SBS; dasiglucagon formulated for use in a dual-hormone artificial pancreas system for diabetes management; and dasiglucagon for use in the treatment of congenital hyperinsulinism. The company has out-licensed a peptide program to Boehringer Ingelheim that has been moved ahead into early clinical development: a once-weekly novel dual-acting GLP-1/glucagon agonist for the treatment of obesity and/or Type 2 diabetes.

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