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The L S Starrett Co (The L S Starrett Co) EBITDA : $28.8 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is The L S Starrett Co EBITDA?

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.2 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $28.8 Mil.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA Growth Rate of The L S Starrett Co was -7.40% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA Growth Rate using EBITDA data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of The L S Starrett Co was 68.50% per year. The lowest was -51.80% per year. And the median was 5.00% per year.

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.56. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $3.79.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of The L S Starrett Co was -9.10% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA per share growth rate using EBITDA per Share data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of The L S Starrett Co was 67.40% per year. The lowest was -51.80% per year. And the median was 4.70% per year.


The L S Starrett Co EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for The L S Starrett Co's 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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The L S Starrett Co EBITDA Chart

The L S Starrett Co Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
EBITDA
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The L S Starrett Co Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA

For the Tools & Accessories subindustry, The L S Starrett Co's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-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.


The L S Starrett Co's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, The L S Starrett Co's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where The L S Starrett Co's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Jun. 2023, The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA was $33.7 Mil.

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Dec. 2023, The L S Starrett Co's EBITDA was $4.2 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $28.8 Mil.

* 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.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

The L S Starrett Co  (NYSE:SCX) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income 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. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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The L S Starrett Co (The L S Starrett Co) Business Description

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Address
121 Crescent Street, Athol, MA, USA, 01331
The L S Starrett Co is engaged in the manufacturing of industrial, professional and consumer measuring and cutting tools and related products. Its products include precision tools, electronic gages, gage blocks, optical vision and laser measuring equipment, custom engineered granite solutions, tape measures, levels, chalk products, squares, band saw blades, hole saws, hacksaw blades, jig saw blades, and others. Its products are used in different industries such as metalworking, automotive, aviation, marine, farm, and "do-it-yourselfers" and tradesmen such as builders, carpenters, plumbers and electricians. The operating segments of the company are North American Operations is a key revenue driver; International Operations and Global Test and Measurement.
Executives
Douglas A Starrett officer: President & CEO 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
John C. Tripp officer: CFO C/O THE L.S. STARRETT COMPANY, 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
David T. Allen other: Insider 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Emerson Leme officer: VP Of Industrial Products C/O THE L.S. STARRETT COMPANY, 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Charles Alpuche director C/O INSULET CORPORATION, 600 TECHNOLOGY PARK DRIVE, SUITE 200, BILLERICA MA 01821
Christian Arntsen officer: VP of International Products C/O THE L.S. STARRETT COMPANY, 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Deborah Gordon director 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Thomas J Riordan director C/O TEREX CORPORATION, 200 NYALA FARM ROAD, WESTPORT CT 06880
Scott William Sproule director C/O SPX CORPORATION, 13320 BALLANTYNE CORPORATE PLACE, CHARLOTTE NC 28277
Terry A Piper director 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOLL MA 01331
Chris Gahagan director AVID TECHNOLOGY, INC., 75 NETWORK DRIVE, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Russell D. Carreker director 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
David A Lemoine director C/O THE L S STARRETT COMPANY, 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Richard Kennedy director 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331
Francis J O'brien officer: Treasurer & CFO C/O THE L. S. STARRETT COMPANY, 121 CRESCENT STREET, ATHOL MA 01331

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