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Data Storage (Data Storage) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.23 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Data Storage Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Data Storage's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.56 Mil. Data Storage's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.04 Mil. Data Storage's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.67 Mil. Data Storage's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.23.

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

DTST' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.06   Med: 2.29   Max: 32.05
Current: 0.36

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Data Storage was 32.05. The lowest was -2.06. And the median was 2.29.

DTST's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
70.12% of 1600 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs DTST: 0.36

Data Storage Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Data Storage'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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Data Storage Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Data Storage 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 3.00 2.37 1.58 -0.54 0.36

Data Storage Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.14 1.29 0.61 0.58 0.23

Competitive Comparison of Data Storage's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Data Storage'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.


Data Storage's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Data Storage Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Data Storage'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
=(0.564 + 0.038) / 1.675
=0.36

Data Storage'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
=(0.564 + 0.038) / 2.668
=0.23

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Data Storage  (NAS:DTST) 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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Data Storage (Data Storage) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
48 South Service Road, Suite 203, Melville, NY, USA, 11747
Data Storage Corporation engages in providing cybersecurity, compliance and cloud computing solutions. The company's segment includes Nexxis Inc; Flagship Solutions, LLC and CloudFirst Technologies Corporation and Corporate. It generates maximum revenue from the CloudFirst Technologies Corporation segment. The company's solutions include infrastructure, disaster recovery, email archival, compliance, electronic vaulting, virtualized recovery, telecom recovery services, and continuous data protection.
Executives
Mark Alexander Wyllie director 980 N. FEDERAL HWY, SUITE 302, BOCA RATON FL 33432
Christos Panagiotakos officer: Chief Financial Officer 1013 PLANDOME ROAD, MANHASSET NY 11030
Wendy Schmittzeh other: Secretary C/O DATA STORAGE CORPORATION, 48 S. SERVICE ROAD, SUITE 203, MELVILLE NY 11747
Matthew Grover director C/O DATA STORAGE CORPORATION, 48 S. SERVICE ROAD, SUITE 203, MELVILLE NY 11747
Todd A. Correll director 222 LAKEVIEW AVENUE, SUITE 1600, WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401
Thomas Kempster director, 10 percent owner, officer: COO, Pres of Tech Ops & Secy C/O DATA STORAGE CORPORATION, 68 SOUTH SERVICE ROAD, MELVILLE NY 11747
Harold Schwarts director, 10 percent owner, officer: President and Treasurer C/O DATA STORAGE CORPORATION, 68 SOUTH SERVICE ROAD, MELVILLE NY 11747
Charles M. Piluso director, 10 percent owner, officer: Pres/CEO/CFO/Chairman C/O DATA STORAGE CORPORATION, 48 S. SERVICE ROAD, SUITE 203, MELVILLE NY 11747
Piluso Family Associates, Llc 10 percent owner 495 MANHASSET WOODS ROAD, MANHASSET NY 11030
Jan Burman director, 10 percent owner 875 MERRICK AVENUE, WESTBURY NY 11590
John F. Coghlan director, 10 percent owner 36 VASSAR PLACE, ROCKVILLE CENTRE NY 11570
Clifford Stein director 5345 PINE TREE DRIVE, MIAMI BEACH FL 33140
Joseph B. Hoffman director 9204 REDWOOD AVE, BETHESDA MD 20817
Matthew P Grosso officer: Secretary, Treasurer and, other: Vice President 19 HASTING DRIVE, STONY BROOK NY 11790
Peter W Briggs officer: Vice President 152 CROMPTON AVENUE #4, EAST GREENWICH RI 02818

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