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Cambridge Nutritional Sciences (LSE:CNSL) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.33 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £0.08 Mil. Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £0.00 Mil. Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £0.24 Mil. Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 0.33.

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 Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:CNSL' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -2.03   Med: 0.32   Max: 6.8
Current: 0.19

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Cambridge Nutritional Sciences was 6.80. The lowest was -2.03. And the median was 0.32.

LSE:CNSL's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
81.21% of 431 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 1.54 vs LSE:CNSL: 0.19

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cambridge Nutritional Sciences'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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Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.37 6.80 1.03 -0.03 -2.03

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Semi-Annual Data
Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24 Sep24
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 -0.14 -0.02 -0.30 0.26 0.33

Competitive Comparison of Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Cambridge Nutritional Sciences'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.


Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.123 + 0.025) / -0.073
=-2.03

Cambridge Nutritional Sciences's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.079 + 0) / 0.242
=0.33

* 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 two times the quarterly (Sep. 2024) EBITDA data.


Cambridge Nutritional Sciences  (LSE:CNSL) 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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Cambridge Nutritional Sciences Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
One Fleet Place, London, GBR, EC4M 7WS
Cambridge Nutritional Sciences PLC is a specialist medical diagnostics company focused on promoting a personalized and functional approach to health and nutrition. The group has two reportable segments: Health and Nutrition; and Corporate. The Health and Nutrition division specialises in the research, development, and production of kits to aid the detection of immune reactions to food. It also provides clinical analysis to the general public, clinics, and health professionals as well as supplying the point-of-care Food Detective test. The Corporate segment consists of centralised corporate costs which are not allocated to the trading activities of the group. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Health and Nutrition segment.