Foster Wheeler AG (FRA:FWI) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.47 (As of Sep. 2014)

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What is Foster Wheeler AG Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Foster Wheeler AG's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €12 Mil. Foster Wheeler AG's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €75 Mil. Foster Wheeler AG's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was €185 Mil. Foster Wheeler AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 0.47.

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 Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:FWI' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0 Med: 0 Max: 0.68
Current: 0.68

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Foster Wheeler AG was 0.68. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.00.

FRA:FWI's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 2.32 vs FRA:FWI: 0.68

Foster Wheeler AG Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Foster Wheeler AG Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Foster Wheeler AG Annual Data

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0.56

Foster Wheeler AG Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.39	-9.97	0.74	0.45	0.47

Competitive Comparison of Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Foster Wheeler AG'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.

Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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Foster Wheeler AG Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Foster Wheeler AG's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(9.134	+	83.015)	/	163.381
	=	0.56

Foster Wheeler AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(12.313	+	74.868)	/	184.944
	=	0.47

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 (Sep. 2014) EBITDA data.

Foster Wheeler AG (FRA:FWI) 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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Foster Wheeler AG (FRA:FWI) Business Description

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Foster Wheeler AG was formed in 1927. The Company, with its subsidiaries, is a provider of construction and engineering services. The Company serves the oil and gas, oil refining, chemical and petrochemical, environmental, power generation, and power plant operation and maintenance industries. The Company operates through two business groups: its Global Engineering and Construction Group (Global E&C Group) and its Global Power Group. The Global E&C Group operates and designs, engineers, and constructs onshore and offshore upstream oil and gas processing facilities, natural gas liquefaction facilities and receiving terminals, gas-to-liquids facilities, oil refining, pharmaceutical and biotechnology facilities and related infrastructure, power generation and distribution facilities, and gasification facilities. The group provides engineering, project management and construction management services, and also designs facilities in new or developing market sectors, such as carbon capture and storage, solid fuel-fired integrated gasification combined-cycle power plants, coal-to-liquids, coal-to-chemicals and biofuels. The Global E&C Group additionally performs environmental remediation services. The Global Power Group designs, manufactures and installs steam generators and auxiliary equipment for electric power generating stations, district heating and power plants and industrial facilities. It offers new and retrofit nitrogen-oxide reduction systems, and provides site services related to these products, including construction and erection, maintenance engineering, plant upgrading, and life extensions. The Global Power Group conducts research and development in the areas of combustion, solid, fluid, and gas dynamics, heat transfer, materials, and solid mechanics. Further, this group owns and operates independent power production and waste-to-energy facilities, as well as power generation facilities for the process and petrochemical industries. Companies that compete with Global E&C Group include but are not limited to the following: Bechtel Corporation; Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V.; Chiyoda Corporation; Fluor Corporation; Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.; JGC Corporation; KBR, Inc.; Saipem S.p.A.; Technip; TÃ©cnicas Reunidas, SA; and WorleyParsons Ltd. Companies that compete with Global Power Group include but are not limited to the following: Alstom Power S.A.; Andritz Group AG; The Babcock & Wilcox Company; Babcock Power Inc.; Dongfang Boiler Works (a subsidiary of Dong Fang Electric Corporation); Doosan-Babcock; Harbin Boiler Co., Ltd.; Hitachi, Ltd.; Metso Corporation; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.; and Shanghai Boiler Works Ltd. The operations are subject to certain federal, state and local environmental, occupational health and product safety laws.

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