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Air Lease (Air Lease) EBITDA

: $1,876 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)
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Air Lease's EBITDA for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $553 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,876 Mil.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA Growth Rate of Air Lease was 113.10% per year. During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 8.50% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 1.30% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 8.50% 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 Air Lease was 54.80% per year. The lowest was -15.80% per year. And the median was 13.15% per year.

Air Lease's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.96. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $16.85.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Air Lease was 113.50% per year. 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 1.60% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 8.20% 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 Air Lease was 44.90% per year. The lowest was -15.40% per year. And the median was 12.50% per year.


Air Lease EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Air Lease'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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Air Lease 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 1,475.19 1,470.39 1,474.20 880.44 1,876.46

Air Lease 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 446.52 431.02 446.18 446.11 553.15

Competitive Comparison

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, Air Lease'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.


Air Lease EV-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Air Lease's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Air Lease'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.

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

Air Lease's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Dec. 2023, Air Lease's EBITDA was $1,876 Mil.

Air Lease's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Air Lease's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Dec. 2023, Air Lease's EBITDA was $553 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 $1,876 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.

Air Lease  (NYSE:AL) 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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Air Lease (Air Lease) Business Description

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Address
2000 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000N, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 90067
Air Lease Corp is an aircraft leasing company based in the United States. However, it derives its revenue from the Asia region. Its business involves purchasing aircraft from renowned manufacturers such as The Boeing Company (Boeing) and Airbus S.A.S and leasing them to airline companies across the world. Its suite of aircraft entails single-aisle narrow-bodied jets and twin-aisle wide-bodied aircraft. The company's primary source of revenue originates from the leasing of aircraft and to a certain extent from the provision of fleet management services to investors and owners of aircraft portfolios.
Executives
Alex A Khatibi officer: EVP C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Yvette Hollingsworth Clark director C/O 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Gregory B Willis officer: SVP FINANCE AND CFO C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 600N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Grant A Levy officer: EVP, GENL. COUNSEL & SECRETARY C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Steven F Udvar-hazy director, officer: Chairman and CEO C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Kishore Korde officer: EVP, Marketing 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Jie Chen officer: EVP & MANAGING DIRECTOR, ASIA C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
John L Plueger director, officer: PRESIDENT AND COO C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Marshall O Larsen director 870 WINTER STREET, WALTHAM MA 02451
Cheryl Gordon Krongard director LEGG MASON, INC., 100 INTERNATIONAL DRIVE, BALTIMORE MD 21202
Susan Mccaw director LIONSGATE, 2700 COLORADO AVENUE, SANTA MONICA CA 90404
Marc H Baer other: EVP C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Carol Hyland Forsyte officer: EVP, GC, Corp Secretary & CCO C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
John D Poerschke officer: SVP C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Ian M Saines director C/O AIR LEASE CORPORATION, 2000 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 1000N, LOS ANGELES CA 90067