MSCI (BSP:M1SC34) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.52 (As of Sep. 2024)

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What is MSCI Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

MSCI's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was R$0 Mil. MSCI's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was R$25,522 Mil. MSCI's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was R$10,137 Mil. MSCI's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 2.52.

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 MSCI's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

BSP:M1SC34' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.9 Med: 3.32 Max: 3.79
Current: 2.49

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of MSCI was 3.79. The lowest was 1.90. And the median was 3.32.

BSP:M1SC34's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
61.25% of 431 companies
in the Capital Markets industry
Industry Median: 1.56 vs BSP:M1SC34: 2.49

MSCI Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for MSCI's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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MSCI Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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3.79

3.69

3.74

3.42

2.70

MSCI Quarterly Data
	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23	Mar24	Jun24	Sep24
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.88	2.06	2.97	2.65	2.52

Competitive Comparison of MSCI's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Financial Data & Stock Exchanges subindustry, MSCI'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.

MSCI's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Capital Markets Industry

For the Capital Markets industry and Financial Services sector, MSCI's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

MSCI Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

MSCI'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
	=	(53.418	+	22622.181)	/	8402.956
	=	2.70

MSCI'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
	=	(0	+	25522.125)	/	10137.276
	=	2.52

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.

MSCI (BSP:M1SC34) 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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MSCI has described its mission as enabling investors to build better portfolios for a better world. MSCI's largest and most profitable segment is its index segment, where it provides benchmarking to asset managers and asset owners. In addition, it boasts over $1.4 trillion in ETF assets linked to MSCI indexes. The MSCI analytics segment provides portfolio management and risk management analytics software to asset managers and asset owners. MSCI's all other segment was broken out into ESG and climate and private assets segments in 2021. In ESG and climate, MSCI provides ESG data to the investment industry. In private assets, MSCI provides real restate reporting, market data, benchmarking, and analytics to investors and real estate managers.

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