Atmel's EBITDA per Share for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2015 was $0.05.
Its EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2015 was $0.28.
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The historical rank and industry rank for Atmel's EBITDA per Share or its related term are showing as below:
ATML's 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 8.5 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate only.
Atmel's EBITDA for the
three
months ended in Dec. 2015 was $21 Mil.
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Atmel EBITDA per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Atmel's EBITDA per Share 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.
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.
Atmel'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 Dec. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.28
* 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.
Atmel (NAS:ATML) 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.
Atmel EBITDA per Share Related Terms
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Atmel Corp was originally incorporated in California on December 5, 1984 and was reincorporated in Delaware in October 1999. The Company designs, develops and supplies microcontrollers, which are self-contained computers-on-a-chip. It organizes its business into four reportable operating segments; Microcontrollers, Nonvolatile Memories, Radio Frequency, and Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Its Microcontrollers segment includes Atmel's maXTouch capacitive touch product families and its general purpose microcontroller and microprocessor families, AVR 8-bit and 32-bit products, ARM based products, Atmel's 8051 8-bit products, designated commercial wireless products, including low power radio and SOC products that meet Zigbee and Wi-Fi specifications and optimized products for mobile sensor hub, smart energy, touch button and LED lighting applications. Its Nonvolatile Memories segment includes electrically erasable programmable read-only "EEPROM" and erasable programmable read-only memory "EPROM" devices. Its Radio Frequency and Automotive segment includes automotive electronics, wireless and wired devices for industrial, consumer and automotive applications and foundry services. Its Application Specific Integrated Circuits segment includes custom application specific integrated circuits designed to meet specialized single-customer requirements for its high performance devices, including products that provide hardware security for embedded digital systems, products with military and aerospace applications and application specific standard products for space applications, power management and secure cryptographic memory products. The Company markets its products in various countries to a diverse base of OEMs serving commercial markets. It also sells its products to OEM accounts through its direct sales force, using manufacturers' representatives or through national and regional distributors. It sells its products in United States, Asia and Europe. Throughout its product line, the Company competes with a number of semiconductor manufacturers, such as Cypress, Freescale, Infineon, Intel, Microchip, NXP Semiconductors, ON Semiconductor, Renesas, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, Synaptics, and Texas Instruments. The Company relies on patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, as well as nondisclosure agreements and other methods to protect its proprietary technologies and processes.
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