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ARDT (Ardent Health Partners) Debt-to-EBITDA : 5.19 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Ardent Health Partners Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Ardent Health Partners's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $12 Mil. Ardent Health Partners's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $2,240 Mil. Ardent Health Partners's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $434 Mil. Ardent Health Partners's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 5.19.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

ARDT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.68   Med: 4.49   Max: 6.85
Current: 5.64

During the past 6 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Ardent Health Partners was 6.85. The lowest was 1.68. And the median was 4.49.

ARDT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
78.52% of 447 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 2.45 vs ARDT: 5.64

Ardent Health Partners Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-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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Ardent Health Partners Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Ardent Health Partners Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 4.13 5.13 - 4.49 6.85

Ardent Health Partners Quarterly Data
Dec16 Sep17 Dec17 Sep18 Dec18 Dec21 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 12.89 5.23 4.11 5.19

Competitive Comparison of Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-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.


Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Ardent Health Partners Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Ardent Health Partners's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(61.033 + 2335.584) / 349.996
=6.85

Ardent Health Partners's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(12.167 + 2240.176) / 433.868
=5.19

* 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.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Sep. 2024) EBITDA data.


Ardent Health Partners  (NYSE:ARDT) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


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Ardent Health Partners Business Description

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340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, TN, USA, 37027
Ardent Health Partners Inc is an operator of hospitals and a provider of healthcare services in the United States. It provide both general and specialty services, including internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, women's services, neurology, urology, and emergency services, within inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The company has one reportable segment: healthcare services that provides healthcare services primarily through its ownership and operation of hospitals, certain of which provide related healthcare services through physician practices, outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities. Ardent has 30 acute care hospitals, more than 200 sites of care that operates across six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas.