Campbell Resources (Campbell Resources) Debt-to-EBITDA : -2.52 (As of Sep. 2008)

Campbell Resources Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Campbell Resources Annual Data
	Trend	Dec98	Dec99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-37.85	-25.64	-28.38	-5.21	-1.05

Campbell Resources Quarterly Data
	Dec03	Mar04	Jun04	Sep04	Dec04	Mar05	Jun05	Sep05	Dec05	Mar06	Jun06	Sep06	Dec06	Mar07	Jun07	Sep07	Dec07	Mar08	Jun08	Sep08
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-1.44	-0.56	-3.73	-2.04	-2.52

Competitive Comparison of Campbell Resources's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Gold subindustry, Campbell Resources'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.

Campbell Resources's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Campbell Resources's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Campbell Resources Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Campbell Resources's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2007 is calculated as

Campbell Resources's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2008 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 (Sep. 2008) EBITDA data.

Campbell Resources  (OTCPK:CBLRF) 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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