Scientific Industries (Scientific Industries) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.16 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Scientific Industries Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Scientific Industries's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.32 Mil. Scientific Industries's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.01 Mil. Scientific Industries's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-8.61 Mil. Scientific Industries's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.15.

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

SCND' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.87 Med: 0.02 Max: 0.46
Current: -0.16

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Scientific Industries was 0.46. The lowest was -2.87. And the median was 0.02.

SCND's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1739 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.78 vs SCND: -0.16

Scientific Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Scientific Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Scientific Industries Annual Data

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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0.14

-2.87

-0.33

-0.23

-0.16

Scientific Industries Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-	-0.15	-0.16	-0.15	-0.16

Competitive Comparison of Scientific Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Scientific Industries'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.

Scientific Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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

Scientific Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Scientific Industries'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
	=	(0.324	+	1.008)	/	-8.506
	=	-0.16

Scientific Industries'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
	=	(0.324	+	1.008)	/	-8.612
	=	-0.15

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.

Scientific Industries (OTCPK:SCND) 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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Scientific Industries (Scientific Industries) Business Description

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Address

80 Orville Drive, Suite 102, Bohemia, NY, USA, 11716

Website

https://www.scientificindustries.com

Scientific Industries Inc is engaged in the design, manufacture, and marketing of benchtop laboratory equipment. Its products are used for research purposes by universities, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, national laboratories, medical device manufacturers, petrochemical companies, and other industries performing laboratory-scale research. The company's operating segment includes Benchtop Laboratory Equipment, Bioprocessing Systems and Corporate. It generates maximum revenue from the Benchtop Laboratory Equipment segment. The company offers equipment products such as mixers, shakers, stirrers, refrigerated incubators, pharmacy balances and scales, force gauges, catalyst instruments, reactor systems, and high throughput systems.

Executives

Bleichroeder Lp	10 percent owner	1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 47TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10105
Marcus Frampton	director, 10 percent owner	800 F STREET, UNIT #P2, JUNEAU AK 99801
Jurgen Walter Schumacher	director	WARTAWEIL 14, HERRSCHING 2M 82211
Reginald Averilla	officer: Chief Financial Officer	175-20 WEXFORD TERRACE, APT 2X, JAMAICA NY 11432
Joseph G Cremonese	director	C/O SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES INC, 70 ORVILLE DR, BOHEMIA NY 11716
John A Moore	director	403 MARSH LANE, WILMINGTON DE 19807
Helena R Santos	director, officer: President and CEO
Veradace Partners Lp	10 percent owner	2626 COLE AVENUE, SUITE 300, DALLAS TX 75204
James B Polk	officer: Chief Commercial Officer	7550 GLEN RIDGE DRIVE, CASTLE PINES CO 80101
Roy T Eddleman	10 percent owner	110 W. GEORGE BURNS ROAD, SUITE D-4018, LOS ANGELES CA 90048
Lyon Polk	10 percent owner	1585 BROADWAY, 22ND FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10036
Christopher T Cox	10 percent owner	CADWALADER, WICKERSHAM & TAFT LLP, ONE WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, NEW YORK NY 10281
Robert Nichols	officer: Secretary	C/O SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES, INC., 70 ORVILLE DRIVE, BOHEMIA NY 11716
Watkins John F F	director	469 PUMPKIN LANE, CLINTON CORNERS NY 12514
Karl Nowosielski	officer: President-Division	C/O SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES, 70 ORVILLE DRIVE, BOHEMIA NY 11716