China Specialty Glass AG (FRA:8GS) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.00 (As of Jun. 2014)

China Specialty Glass AG Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

China Specialty Glass AG Quarterly Data
	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial									0.78	0.60	-2.45	1.59	1.00

Competitive Comparison of China Specialty Glass AG's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, China Specialty Glass AG'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.

China Specialty Glass AG's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, China Specialty Glass AG's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Specialty Glass AG's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.

China Specialty Glass AG Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

China Specialty Glass AG's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

China Specialty Glass AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 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. 2014) EBITDA data.

China Specialty Glass AG  (FRA:8GS) 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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