Centennial Specialty Foods (Centennial Specialty Foods) Debt-to-EBITDA : -2.83 (As of Jun. 2005)

Centennial Specialty Foods Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Centennial Specialty Foods Quarterly Data
	Mar03	Jun03	Sep03	Dec03	Mar04	Jun04	Sep04	Dec04	Mar05	Jun05
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-0.87	-2.84	-3.69	-2.58	-2.83

Competitive Comparison of Centennial Specialty Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Centennial Specialty Foods'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.

Centennial Specialty Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Centennial Specialty Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Centennial Specialty Foods Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Centennial Specialty Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2004 is calculated as

Centennial Specialty Foods's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2005 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 (Jun. 2005) EBITDA data.

Centennial Specialty Foods  (OTCPK:CHLE) 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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