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Ideal Power (Ideal Power) EBITDA

: $-10.02 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)
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Ideal Power's EBITDA for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-2.35 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-10.02 Mil.

During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -9.30% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -20.30% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -1.60% 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 Ideal Power was 34.30% per year. The lowest was -62.20% per year. And the median was -16.40% per year.

Ideal Power's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.38. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-1.62.

During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 9.30% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 14.40% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 25.90% 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 Ideal Power was 45.30% per year. The lowest was -55.60% per year. And the median was 16.40% per year.


Ideal Power EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ideal Power'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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Ideal Power Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -3.01 -7.67 -4.69 -7.10 -10.02

Ideal Power Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
EBITDA 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -1.88 -2.59 -2.32 -2.77 -2.35

Competitive Comparison

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Ideal Power'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.


Ideal Power EV-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Ideal Power's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ideal Power'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.

Ideal Power's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Ideal Power's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Dec. 2023, Ideal Power's EBITDA was $-10.02 Mil.

Ideal Power's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Ideal Power's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Dec. 2023, Ideal Power's EBITDA was $-2.35 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 $-10.02 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.

Ideal Power  (NAS:IPWR) 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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Ideal Power (Ideal Power) Business Description

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Address
5508 Highway 290 West, Suite 120, Austin, TX, USA, 78735
Ideal Power Inc is pioneering the development of its broadly patented bidirectional power switches, creating efficient and ecofriendly energy control solutions for electric vehicle, electric vehicle charging, renewable energy, energy storage, UPS / data center, solid-state circuit breaker and other industrial and military applications. The company is focused on its patented Bidirectional, Bipolar Junction Transistor (B-TRAN) semiconductor technology. B-TRAN is a unique double-sided bidirectional AC switchable to deliver substantial performance improvements over conventional power semiconductors. The primary raw material used in the fabrication of B-TRAN devices is silicon wafers.
Executives
Gregory C Knight director C/O IDEAL POWER INC., 5508 HIGHWAY 290 WEST, SUITE 120, AUSTIN TX 78735
Drue Freeman director C/O IDEAL POWER INC., 5508 HIGHWAY 290 WEST, SUITE 120, AUSTIN TX 78735
Laban E Lesster director 4120 FREIDRICH LN STE 100, AUSTIN TX 78744
David B Eisenhaure director 478 JERUSALEM ROAD, COHASSET MA 02025
Michael C Turmelle director 27 COUNTRY FARM WAY, STRATHAM NH 03885
Lon E Bell director, officer: President and CEO C/O AMERIGON INC, 5462 IRWINDALE AVENUE, IRWINDALE CA 91706
Daniel Brdar director, officer: BTRAN Chief Commercial Officer FUELCELL ENERGY INC, 3 GREAT PASTURE ROAD, DANBURY CT 06813-1305
Timothy Burns officer: Chief Financial Officer 900 E. HAMILTON AVENUE, SUITE 400, CAMPBELL CA 95008
Awm Investment Company, Inc. 10 percent owner 527 MADISON AVENUE, SUITE 2600, NEW YORK NY 10022
Bill Alexander director, officer: Chief Technology Officer 5004 BEE CREEK ROAD, SUITE 600, SPICEWOOD TX 78669
Mark L Baum director C/O IMPRIMIS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC, 12264 EL CAMINO REAL, SUITE 350, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Peter A Appel 10 percent owner C/O ARCH CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD, 20 HORSENECK LANE, GREENWICH CT 06830
Ryan O'keefe officer: Senior VP, Bus. Development 4120 FREIDRICH LANE, SUITE 100, AUSTIN TX 78744
Marxe Austin W & Greenhouse David M 10 percent owner C/O SPECIAL SITUATIONS FUNDS, 527 MADISON AVENUE, SUITE 2600, NEW YORK NY 10022
Tarr Charles De 10 percent owner, officer: VP Finance 5004 BEE CREEK ROAD, SUITE 600, SPICEWOOD TX 78669