LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.58 (As of Jun. 2015)

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What is LookSmart Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

LookSmart's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.80 Mil. LookSmart's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.62 Mil. LookSmart's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was €-2.47 Mil. LookSmart's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was -0.58.

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

FRA:LOKB's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked ^*
in the Interactive Media industry.
Industry Median: 0.84
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

LookSmart Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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* 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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LookSmart Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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-0.02

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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.02	-0.01	-0.02	-0.25	-0.58

Competitive Comparison of LookSmart's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, LookSmart'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.

LookSmart's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, LookSmart's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

LookSmart Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

LookSmart's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.071	+	0)	/	-4.127
	=	-0.02

LookSmart's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.801	+	0.624)	/	-2.468
	=	-0.58

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. 2015) EBITDA data.

LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) 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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LookSmart (FRA:LOKB) Business Description

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LookSmart Ltd was organized in 1996 and is incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company is a search advertising network solutions Company that provides relevant solutions for search advertising customers. It operates in a large online search advertising ecosystem serving ads that target user queries on partner sites. It operates in the middle of this ecosystem, acquiring search queries from a variety of sources and matching them with the keywords of its search advertising customers. The Companys largest category of customers has been intermediaries, the majority of which purchase clicks to sell into the affiliate networks of the large search engine providers. Another category of customers are direct advertisers and their agencies whose objective is to obtain conversions or sales from the clicks. The last category of customers is self-service advertisers that sign-up online and pays by credit card. It offers search advertising customers targeted, pay-per-click (PPC) search via a monitored search advertising distribution network using the Companys AdCenter platform technology. The Companys search advertising network includes publishers and search advertising customers, including intermediaries and direct advertising customers and their agencies as well as self-service customers in the United States and certain other countries. The Companys application programming interface (API) allows search advertising customers and their advertising agencies to connect any type of marketing or reporting software with minimal effort for easier access, management, and optimization of search advertising campaigns. It also offers publishers licensed private-label search advertiser network solutions based on its AdCenter platform technology (Publisher Solutions). Publisher Solutions consist of hosted auction-based ad serving with an ad backfill capability that allows publishers and portals to manage their advertiser relationships, distribution channels and accounts. The Companys trademarks include LookSmart. It is subject to a number of domestic state and federal laws that affect companies conducting business on the Internet.