What is Cash America International EBITDA per Share?
Cash America International's EBITDA per Share for the
three
months ended in Jun. 2016 was $0.79.
Its EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $4.39.
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The historical rank and industry rank for Cash America International's EBITDA per Share or its related term are showing as below:
CSH's 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Credit Services industry.
Industry Median: 8.7 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate only.
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Cash America International EBITDA per Share Historical Data
* 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.
Cash America International EBITDA per Share Calculation
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.
Cash America International's EBITDA per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $4.39
* 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.
Cash America International (NYSE:CSH) 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.
Cash America International EBITDA per Share Related Terms
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Cash America International (Cash America International) Business Description
Cash America International Inc was incorporated in 1984. The Company and its subsidiaries provide specialty financial services to individuals through retail services locations and e-commerce activities. It has two reportable segments: retail services and e-commerce. The retail services segment includes all of the operations of the Company's Retail Services Division, which is composed of both domestic and foreign storefront locations that offer some or all of the following services: pawn lending, consumer loans, check cashing and other ancillary services such as money orders, wire transfers and pre-paid debit cards. (Its ancillary services are provided through third-party vendors.) The e-commerce segment includes the operations of the Company's E-Commerce Division, which is composed of the Company's domestic and foreign online lending channels and the Company's MLOC channel. It offers short-term cash advances exclusively over the internet under the name CashNetUSA in the United States, under the name QuickQuid in the United Kingdom and under the name DollarsDirect in Australia and Canada. The Company operates its locations under the trade names Cash America Pawn, Cash America Payday Advance, Cashland, Mr. Payroll, SuperPawn, CashNetUSA QuickQuid, DollarsDirect and Prenda Facil. The Company's marks Cash America, Cashland, SuperPawn, CashNetUSA and Mr. Payroll are registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The mark Prenda Facil is registered with the Mexican Industrial Property Institute. The principal competitors for its e-commerce segment in the United States include Miami Nation Enterprises, Integrity Advance, Think Finance and certain offshore lenders. In the United Kingdom, the Company believes that its principal online competitors include PaydayUK, PaydayExpress, Wonga and Lending Stream. In Australia, the Company believes its main online competitors are Nimble, Cash Converters and First Stop Money. In Canada, the industry has been dominated by storefront lenders and as a result, the Company's principal competitors are not online lenders but storefront lenders, such as Money Mart, The Cash Store and Cash Money. The Company's operations are subject to regulation, supervision and licensing under various federal, state and local statutes, ordinances and regulations.
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