Dixons Retail (LSE:DXNS) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.31 (As of Apr. 2014)

Dixons Retail Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Dixons Retail Annual Data
	Trend	Apr05	Apr06	Apr07	May08	Apr09	Apr10	Apr11	Apr12	Apr13	Apr14
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.78	-23.13	5.66	1.50	1.17

Dixons Retail Semi-Annual Data
	Oct07	Oct08	Apr09	Oct09	Apr10	Oct10	Apr11	Oct11	Apr12	Oct12	Apr13	Oct13	Apr14
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								-2.37	3.11	1.74	1.64	1.31

Competitive Comparison of Dixons Retail's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Dixons Retail'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.

Dixons Retail's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Dixons Retail's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Dixons Retail Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Dixons Retail's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2014 is calculated as

Dixons Retail's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2014 is calculated as

* 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 (Apr. 2014) EBITDA data.

Dixons Retail  (LSE:DXNS) 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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