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Luna Innovations (Luna Innovations) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.83 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Luna Innovations Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Luna Innovations's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $5.1 Mil. Luna Innovations's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $35.1 Mil. Luna Innovations's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $10.5 Mil. Luna Innovations's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 3.83.

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

LUNA' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.62   Med: 2.09   Max: 10.77
Current: 6.7

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Luna Innovations was 10.77. The lowest was -1.62. And the median was 2.09.

LUNA's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
85.22% of 1739 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.78 vs LUNA: 6.70

Luna Innovations Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Luna Innovations'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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Luna Innovations Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Luna Innovations Annual Data
Trend Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.28 0.54 6.87 10.77 7.48

Luna Innovations Quarterly Data
Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23
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 2.30 2.36 -12.00 8.70 3.83

Competitive Comparison of Luna Innovations's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Luna Innovations'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.


Luna Innovations's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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



Luna Innovations Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Luna Innovations's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(4.789 + 23.53) / 3.786
=7.48

Luna Innovations's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(5.069 + 35.065) / 10.476
=3.83

* 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 (Sep. 2023) EBITDA data.


Luna Innovations  (NAS:LUNA) 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.


Luna Innovations Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Luna Innovations (Luna Innovations) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
301 1st Street South West, Suite 200, Roanoke, VA, USA, 24011
Luna Innovations Inc is engaged in optical technology, providing high-performance fiber optic test, measurement, and control products for the telecommunications, and photonics industries, and distributed fiber optic sensing solutions that measure and monitor materials and structures for applications in aerospace, automotive, oil, and gas, security, and infrastructure. Its Lightwave segment develops, manufactures, and markets optical measurements technologies like Sensing including short, medium, and long-range distributed fiber optic sensing solutions and Terahertz measurement products, and Communications test and photonic control including test equipment for communications devices and networks and specialty laser and photonic components. It derives a majority of its revenue from the U.S.
Executives
George Gomez-quintero officer: Chief Financial Officer LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 301 FIRST STREET SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Pamela L Coe director C/O EXPEDIA, INC., 333 108TH AVENUE NE, BELLEVUE WA 98004
Brian Soller officer: Chief Operating Officer 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Gene Nestro officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O LUNA INNOVATIONS, INC., 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Clinic Carilion 10 percent owner EDWARD MURPHY, M.D., 213 SOUTH JEFFERSON STREET, SUITE 807, ROANOKE VA 24011
Mary Beth Vitale director 821 17TH STREET, DENVER CO 80202
Dale E Messick officer: Chief Financial Officer LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 2851 COMMERCE STREET, BLACKSBURG VA 24060
Scott A Graeff officer: CFO, Executive VP Corp. Dev. LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 2851 COMMERCE STREET, BLACKSBURG VA 24060
Barry Phelps director 26750 AGOURA RD, CALABASAS CA 91302
Michael W. Wise director C/O LUNA INNOVATIONS INCORPORATED, 1 RIVERSIDE CIRCLE, SUITE 400, ROANOKE VA 24016
Richard Roedel director 164 WEST RD, NEW CANAAN CT 06840
Donald Pastor director 2925 BOARDWALK, ANN ARBOR MI 48104
Gary Spiegel director
Coringrato Edward J Jr. director 301 1ST STREET, SW, SUITE 200, ROANOKE VA 24011
Wilkin Neil D Jr director