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Dost Steels (KAR:DSL) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.00 (As of . 20)


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What is Dost Steels Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Dost Steels's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in . 20 was ₨0.00 Mil. Dost Steels's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in . 20 was ₨0.00 Mil. Dost Steels's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in . 20 was ₨0.00 Mil.

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

KAR:DSL's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Steel industry.
Industry Median: 2.79
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Dost Steels Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dost Steels'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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Dost Steels Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Dost Steels's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Steel subindustry, Dost Steels'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.


Dost Steels's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Dost Steels's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Dost Steels Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Dost Steels's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in . 20 is calculated as

Dost Steels's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in . 20 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 (. 20) EBITDA data.


Dost Steels  (KAR:DSL) 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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Dost Steels (KAR:DSL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1-Aibak Block, Barkat Market, 4th Floor, Ibrahim Trade Centre, New Garden Town, Lahore, PB, PAK, 54700
Dost Steels Ltd is a steel manufacturing company. The company manufactures steel, direct reduced iron, sponge iron, hot briquetted iron, carbon steel, pig iron and special alloy steel in different forms.