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AlarmForce Industries (AlarmForce Industries) EBITDA : $10.00 Mil (TTM As of Jul. 2017)


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What is AlarmForce Industries EBITDA?

AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA for the three months ended in Jul. 2017 was $0.80 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2017 was $10.00 Mil.

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AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in Jul. 2017 was $0.07. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2017 was $0.87.

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AlarmForce Industries EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for AlarmForce Industries'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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AlarmForce Industries EBITDA Chart

AlarmForce Industries Annual Data
Trend Oct07 Oct08 Oct09 Oct10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct13 Oct14 Oct15 Oct16
EBITDA
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AlarmForce Industries Quarterly Data
Oct12 Jan13 Apr13 Jul13 Oct13 Jan14 Apr14 Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17
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Competitive Comparison of AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, AlarmForce Industries'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.


AlarmForce Industries's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Business Services Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where AlarmForce Industries'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.

AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2016 is calculated as

AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Oct. 2016, AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA was $4.81 Mil.

AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2017 is calculated as

AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Jul. 2017, AlarmForce Industries's EBITDA was $0.80 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jul. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $10.00 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.

AlarmForce Industries  (OTCPK:ARFCF) 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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AlarmForce Industries (AlarmForce Industries) Business Description

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AlarmForce Industries Inc is a Canada based company provides security based solutions. It primarily offers security alarm monitoring, personal emergency response monitoring, video surveillance and related services. The company provides home security systems, which includes home security; home automation; smoke, flood, and carbon monoxide detection, and Bundles. The company's business security systems include business security and video, business automation and customized solutions. The industry serves both residential and commercial market. Geographically the firm offers services to subscribers throughout Canada and selected centres across the United States of America. AlarmForce derives most of the revenue from the sale of security-based products.

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