Wright Medical Group's EBITDA per Share for the
three
months ended in Jun. 2015 was €-0.46.
Its EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 was €-1.44.
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The historical rank and industry rank for Wright Medical Group's EBITDA per Share or its related term are showing as below:
During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Wright Medical Group was 40.60% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was -4.10% per year.
FRA:WM3's 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 8 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate only.
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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Wright Medical Group was 145.90% per year. The lowest was -23.80% per year. And the median was -0.10% per year.
Wright Medical Group EBITDA per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Wright Medical Group's EBITDA per Share 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.
EBITDA per Share is the amount of Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) per outstanding share of the company's stock.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Wright Medical Group's EBITDA per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €-1.44
* 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.
Wright Medical Group (FRA:WM3) EBITDA per Share Explanation
EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals EBIT. EBIT is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.
While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.
The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.
EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:
Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners
EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.
A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.
Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.
Be Aware
Although depreciation is not a cash cost, it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.
EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies.
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Wright Medical Group (FRA:WM3) Business Description
Wright Medical Group Inc, through Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and other operating subsidiaries, is a specialty orthopaedic company, that provides extremity and biologic solutions that enable clinicians to alleviate pain and restore their patients' lifestyles. The Company provides surgical solutions for the foot and ankle market and markets its products in over 60 countries. Its business includes products that are used in foot and ankle repair, upper extremity products, and biologics products, which are used to replace damaged or diseased bone, to stimulate bone growth and to provide other biological solutions for surgeons and their patients. Extremity hardware includes implants and other devices to replace or reconstruct injured or diseased joints and bones of the foot, ankle, hand, wrist, fingers, toes, elbow and shoulder, which it generally refer to as either foot and ankle or upper extremity products. The Company's manufacturing and warehousing operations are located in Arlington, Tennessee. Outside the U.S., The Company has distribution and administrative facilities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and sales and distribution offices in Canada, Australia, and Europe. The Company operates its continuing operations as one reportable segment and offer products in extremity reconstruction and biologics. The Company's products include CHARLOTTE, CLAW II, DARCO, EVOLVE, MICRONAIL, GRAFTJACKET, OSTEOSET. Its competitors include major companies in the orthopaedic and biologics industries, as well as academic institutions and other public and private research organizations that continue to conduct research, seek patent protection and establish arrangements for commercializing products. The Company's products are strictly regulated by the FDA under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Some of its products are also regulated by state agencies.
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