SDI Group (LSE:SDI) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.99 (As of Oct. 2023)

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What is SDI Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

SDI Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £0.78 Mil. SDI Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £20.74 Mil. SDI Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £10.83 Mil. SDI Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 1.99.

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 SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SDI' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.5 Med: 0.74 Max: 2.43
Current: 2.43

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of SDI Group was 2.43. The lowest was 0.50. And the median was 0.74.

LSE:SDI's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
59.09% of 1733 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.79 vs LSE:SDI: 2.43

SDI Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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SDI Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

SDI Group Annual Data

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Apr14

Apr15

Apr16

Apr17

Apr18

Apr19

Apr20

Apr21

Apr22

Apr23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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1.21

2.22

0.67

0.88

2.06

SDI Group Semi-Annual Data
	Apr14	Oct14	Apr15	Oct15	Apr16	Oct16	Apr17	Oct17	Apr18	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22	Apr23	Oct23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.37	0.89	1.71	3.31	1.99

Competitive Comparison of SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, SDI Group'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.

SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

SDI Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

SDI Group's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.745	+	21.996)	/	11.068
	=	2.05

SDI Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.78	+	20.739)	/	10.828
	=	1.99

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 (Oct. 2023) EBITDA data.

SDI Group (LSE:SDI) 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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SDI Group PLC designs and manufactures scientific and technology products for use by the life science, healthcare, astronomy, consumer manufacturing and art conservation markets through Synoptics, the Artemis, the Opus instruments, and Astles Control systems brands. The Digital Imaging segment incorporates the Synoptics brands Syngene, Synbiosis, Synoptics Health and Fistreem, the Atik brands Atik Cameras, Opus and Quantum Scientific Imaging, and the Graticules Optics business. The Sensors & Control segment combines our Sentek, Astles Control Systems, Applied Thermal Control, Thermal Exchange, MPB Industries and Chell Instruments businesses. It operates in the UK, Europe, America, Rest of Asia, and Rest of the world segments. It derives most of its revenues from America segment.