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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Debt-to-EBITDA : -15.78 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Pegasystems Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Pegasystems's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $514 Mil. Pegasystems's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $64 Mil. Pegasystems's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $-37 Mil. Pegasystems's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -15.78.

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

PEGA' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -7.18   Med: -5.09   Max: 4.8
Current: 4.78

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Pegasystems was 4.80. The lowest was -7.18. And the median was -5.09.

PEGA's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
82.94% of 1600 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs PEGA: 4.78

Pegasystems Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pegasystems'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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Pegasystems Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Pegasystems 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 -0.47 -7.08 -7.18 -5.09 4.80

Pegasystems Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 -18.38 -4.36 60.07 0.90 -15.78

Competitive Comparison of Pegasystems's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Pegasystems'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.


Pegasystems's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Pegasystems Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Pegasystems'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
=(15 + 566.269) / 121.062
=4.80

Pegasystems's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(514.169 + 63.645) / -36.624
=-15.78

* 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 (Mar. 2024) EBITDA data.


Pegasystems  (NAS:PEGA) 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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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
One Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02142
Founded in 1983, Pegasystems provides a suite of solutions for customer engagement and business process management. The company's key offering is the Pega Infinity platform, which combines business process management, or BPM, with customer relationship management, or CRM, applications. The company focuses on enterprise-size customers, specifically within the financial, insurance, and healthcare verticals.
Executives
Efstathios A Kouninis officer: VP of Finance & CAO 26 GRANDVIEW DRIVE, DOVER NH 03820
Rifat Kerim Akgonul officer: Chief Product Officer ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Leon Trefler officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Kenneth Stillwell officer: CFO, SVP ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRDIGE MA 02142
Richard H Jones director C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
John Gerard Higgins officer: Chief, Client &Partner Success C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michael R Pyle officer: Senior VP, Engineering C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIGE MA 02142
Christopher Lafond director 56 TOP GALLANT RD, STAMFORD CT 06904
Sharon T Rowlands director 195 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10007
Dianne Ledingham director ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Larry Weber director C/O MIVA, INC., 5220 SUMMERLIN COMMONS BLVD., SUITE 500, FORT MYERS FL 33907
Douglas I Kra officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 101 MAIN STREET, C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Hayden Stafford officer: President ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Peter Gyenes director 50 WASHINGTON ST, WESBOROUGH MA 012581
Alan Trefler 10 percent owner, officer: C.E.O. & Chairman C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142