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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow : 0.84 (As of Jun. 2014)


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What is Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow?

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow assesses how much of a company’s cash flow from operations is being devoted to capital expenditure. It’s also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not.

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capital Expenditure for the six months ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF-7.74 Mil. Its Cash Flow from Operations for the six months ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF9.24 Mil.

Hence, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the six months ended in Jun. 2014 was 0.84.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Chart

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.31 1.35 0.79 0.97 0.66

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Semi-Annual Data
Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14
Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.33 0.50 0.57 0.73 0.84

Competitive Comparison of Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow 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.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow falls into.



Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Calculation

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-11.671) / 17.778
=0.66

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow=- Capital Expenditure / Cash Flow from Operations
=- (-7.738) / 9.244
=0.84

* 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.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding  (XSWX:ADBN) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Explanation

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio assesses how much of a company’s Cash Flow from Operations is being devoted to Capital Expenditure. It is a good indicator in terms of how much the company is focused on growth. In general, a high Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio indicates that the company is investing more in physical assets and is focused on growth and expansion. Conversely, lower ratio could indicate that a company has reached maturity and is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.

Moreover, the ratio is also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not. If the ratio is large, then the company tends to be capital intensive. Lower ratio suggests that it’s a capital-light business. The ratio can be combined with ROIC % to identify whether the company is an asset-light business that has a high return on invested capital. This is one question investors commonly ask to see if a company qualifies as a good company.


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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Business Description

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding SA was incorporated on July 26, 2004 in the Canton of Geneva. The Company is engaged in the development and sale of equipment, services and software for the digital television and broadband data communication industry, and relies on third party contract manufacturers for the production of equipment. In 2005, the Company made an initial public offering. It develops and delivers diverse products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms such as cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Its customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes. The Company is in system integration, incorporating the industry's middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short time as possible.

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