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Pitney Bowes (FRA:PBW) Debt-to-EBITDA : 23.16 (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Pitney Bowes Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Pitney Bowes's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €77 Mil. Pitney Bowes's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €1,879 Mil. Pitney Bowes's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €84 Mil. Pitney Bowes's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 23.16.

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

FRA:PBW' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.13   Med: 8.22   Max: 21.22
Current: 12.18

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Pitney Bowes was 21.22. The lowest was 3.13. And the median was 8.22.

FRA:PBW's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
92.13% of 864 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 2.575 vs FRA:PBW: 12.18

Pitney Bowes Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pitney Bowes'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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Pitney Bowes Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Pitney Bowes Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 21.22 8.54 5.75 9.97 8.68

Pitney Bowes Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 53.36 6.50 13.07 132.29 23.16

Competitive Comparison of Pitney Bowes's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Pitney Bowes'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.


Pitney Bowes's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Pitney Bowes's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Pitney Bowes Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Pitney Bowes's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(76.555 + 1878.735) / 225.239
=8.68

Pitney Bowes's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(76.555 + 1878.735) / 84.42
=23.16

* 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. 2024) EBITDA data.


Pitney Bowes  (FRA:PBW) 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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Pitney Bowes Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3001 Summer Street, Stamford, CT, USA, 06926
Pitney Bowes Inc is a technology-driven company that provides SaaS shipping solutions, mailing innovation, and financial services to clients around the globe. The company's reportable segments are SendTech Solutions and Presort Services. SendTech Solutions includes the revenue and related expenses from physical and digital mailing and shipping technology solutions, financing, services, supplies and other applications to help simplify and save on the sending, tracking and receiving of letters, parcels and flats. Presort Services includes the revenue and related expenses from sortation services to qualify large volumes of First Class Mail, Marketing Mail and Marketing Mail Flats/Bound Printed Matter for postal worksharing discounts. It derives maximum revenue from SendTech Solutions.