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Crossword Cybersecurity (LSE:CCS) Debt-to-EBITDA : -1.65 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Crossword Cybersecurity Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Crossword Cybersecurity's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £0.11 Mil. Crossword Cybersecurity's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £3.48 Mil. Crossword Cybersecurity's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was £-2.17 Mil. Crossword Cybersecurity's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -1.65.

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 Crossword Cybersecurity's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:CCS' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.1   Med: -0.68   Max: -0.36
Current: -1.1

During the past 7 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Crossword Cybersecurity was -0.36. The lowest was -1.10. And the median was -0.68.

LSE:CCS's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1616 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.005 vs LSE:CCS: -1.10

Crossword Cybersecurity Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Crossword Cybersecurity'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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Crossword Cybersecurity Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Crossword Cybersecurity Annual Data
Trend Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -0.68 -0.70 -0.62 -0.36 -1.10

Crossword Cybersecurity Semi-Annual Data
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 -0.76 - -0.37 -0.40 -1.65

Competitive Comparison of Crossword Cybersecurity's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Crossword Cybersecurity'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.


Crossword Cybersecurity's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Crossword Cybersecurity Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Crossword Cybersecurity'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
=(0.106 + 3.479) / -3.247
=-1.10

Crossword Cybersecurity'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
=(0.106 + 3.479) / -2.168
=-1.65

* 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.


Crossword Cybersecurity  (LSE:CCS) 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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Crossword Cybersecurity (LSE:CCS) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
60 Gracechurch Street, 6th Floor, London, GBR, EC3V 0HR
Crossword Cybersecurity PLC is a technology commercialization company operating in the cybersecurity sector. The company's products include Rizikon, a cybersecurity risk analysis tool, Nixxer, Idnentiproof, Nightingale, Trillion and Arc.