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Splunk (Splunk) EBITDA : $428 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Splunk EBITDA?

Splunk's EBITDA for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $472 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $428 Mil.

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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Splunk was 17.50% per year. The lowest was -214.00% per year. And the median was -60.90% per year.

Splunk's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $2.46. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $2.11.

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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Splunk was 20.90% per year. The lowest was -188.10% per year. And the median was -48.40% per year.


Splunk EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Splunk'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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Splunk EBITDA Chart

Splunk Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -167.74 -684.31 -1,047.04 -119.96 428.35

Splunk Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 302.81 -156.34 -23.01 135.99 471.71

Competitive Comparison of Splunk's EBITDA

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Splunk'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.


Splunk's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Splunk's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Splunk'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.

Splunk's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Splunk's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Jan. 2024, Splunk's EBITDA was $428 Mil.

Splunk's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Splunk's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Jan. 2024, Splunk's EBITDA was $472 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $428 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.

Splunk  (NAS:SPLK) 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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Splunk (Splunk) Business Description

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Address
270 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94107
Splunk is a cloud-first software company that focuses on analyzing machine data. The company is a major player in two markets: security, and full-stack monitoring and analysis. The San Francisco-based firm focuses on enterprise clients, with more than 90% of the Fortune 100 using its solutions. The firm's top line consists of the sale of software licenses, cloud subscriptions, and maintenance and support.
Executives
Scott Morgan officer: General Counsel and Secretary C/O SPLUNK INC.,270 BRANNAN STREET, SAN JOSE CA 94107
Christian Smith officer: SVP, Chief Revenue Officer C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN ST CA 94107
Gary Steele director, officer: President and CEO C/O PROOFPOINT, INC., 892 ROSS DRIVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94089
Elisa Steele director 1601 CLOVERFIELD BLVD, STE 620 SOUTH, SANTA MONICA CA 90404
Yamini Rangan director 333 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Brian Kayman officer: Chief Accounting Officer 270 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Tom Casey officer: SVP, GM Platform C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN ST CA 94107
Brian Keith Roberts officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer C/O LYFT, INC., 185 BERRY STREET, SUITE 5000, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Richard P Wallace director KLA TENCOR, 160 RIO ROBLES, SAN JOSE CA 95134
David R Tunnell director C/O HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN, 415 MISSION STREET SUITE 5700, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Jason Child officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN ST., SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Shawn Bice officer: President of PROD & TECH C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Timothy Emanuelson officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O SPLUNK INC., 270 BRANNAN STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Luis Felipe Visoso director C/O UNITY SOFTWARE INC., 30 3RD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Graham Smith director 301 BRANNMAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107