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Firma Holdings (Firma Holdings) Debt-to-EBITDA : -1.84 (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is Firma Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Firma Holdings's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $4.47 Mil. Firma Holdings's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $2.30 Mil. Firma Holdings's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was $-3.68 Mil. Firma Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was -1.84.

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

FRMA's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: 2.04
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Firma Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Firma Holdings'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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Firma Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Firma Holdings Annual Data
Trend Oct06 Oct07 Oct08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only -0.11 -0.09 -0.31 -0.09 -0.23

Firma Holdings Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
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 -0.69 -0.80 -0.06 -2.25 -1.84

Competitive Comparison of Firma Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Firma Holdings'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.


Firma Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

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



Firma Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Firma Holdings'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
=(2.383 + 1.91) / -19.074
=-0.23

Firma Holdings'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
=(4.474 + 2.301) / -3.676
=-1.84

* 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. 2015) EBITDA data.


Firma Holdings  (OTCPK:FRMA) 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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Firma Holdings (Firma Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
4915 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 3, Downers Grove, IL, USA, 60515
Firma Holdings Corp operates in the mining and consumer product sales business. In addition, it also sells personal protection equipment (commonly referred to as "PPE"), and household and consumer products with its existing joint venture partners as well as participates as a procurement agent for both commercial and government entities.