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Wowjoint Holdings (Wowjoint Holdings) Debt-to-EBITDA : N/A (As of Dec. 2013)


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What is Wowjoint Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Wowjoint Holdings's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was $6.38 Mil. Wowjoint Holdings's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was $0.00 Mil. Wowjoint Holdings's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 was $0.00 Mil.

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

BWOWF's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry.
Industry Median: 2.06
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Wowjoint Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Wowjoint Holdings'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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Wowjoint Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Wowjoint Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec08 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Debt-to-EBITDA
- 1.56 3.95 -1.49 7.47

Wowjoint Holdings Quarterly Data
May08 Dec08 Jun09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -10.96 -1.98 N/A N/A N/A

Competitive Comparison of Wowjoint Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Wowjoint Holdings'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.


Wowjoint Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry

For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Wowjoint Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Wowjoint Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Wowjoint Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(6.383 + 0) / 0.854
=7.47

Wowjoint Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

* 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 (Dec. 2013) EBITDA data.


Wowjoint Holdings  (OTCPK:BWOWF) 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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Wowjoint Holdings (Wowjoint Holdings) Business Description

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Address
No. 2 Xinfeng Road, Deshemengwai Street, 1108 A Block Tiancheng Mansion, Xicheng District, Beijing, CHN, 100088
Wowjoint Holdings Ltd provides infrastructure solutions for customized heavy duty lifting and carrying machinery used in large-scale projects. The company operates under the manufacture and marketing of non-standard heavy lifting and carrying equipment in China. The equipment and machinery are used in various engineering fields, such as bridge, road and railway construction, as well as in areas of heavy capacity lifting and transporting of concrete beams, boats, and shipping containers. Geographically all the operations are functioned through the region of China.

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