Hercules Site Services (LSE:HERC) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.37 (As of Sep. 2024)

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What is Hercules Site Services Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Hercules Site Services's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £11.4 Mil. Hercules Site Services's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £1.3 Mil. Hercules Site Services's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was £5.3 Mil. Hercules Site Services's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 2.37.

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 Hercules Site Services's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:HERC' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.9 Med: 4.1 Max: 11.15
Current: 2.77

During the past 8 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Hercules Site Services was 11.15. The lowest was 0.90. And the median was 4.10.

LSE:HERC's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
55.07% of 1360 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 2.315 vs LSE:HERC: 2.77

Hercules Site Services Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Hercules Site Services Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Hercules Site Services Annual Data

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Sep17

Sep18

Sep19

Sep20

Sep21

Sep22

Sep23

Sep24

Debt-to-EBITDA

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4.10

7.25

11.15

8.23

2.90

Hercules Site Services Semi-Annual Data
	Sep17	Sep18	Sep19	Mar20	Sep20	Mar21	Sep21	Mar22	Sep22	Mar23	Sep23	Mar24	Sep24
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								6.46	12.53	5.93	5.55	2.37

Competitive Comparison of Hercules Site Services's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Hercules Site Services'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.

Hercules Site Services's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Construction Industry

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Hercules Site Services Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Hercules Site Services's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year 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
	=	(11.352	+	1.316)	/	4.372
	=	2.90

Hercules Site Services'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
	=	(11.352	+	1.316)	/	5.344
	=	2.37

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.

Hercules Site Services (LSE:HERC) 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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Hercules Site Services Business Description

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Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Lakeside Business Park, Hercules Court, Cirencester, GBR, GL7 5XZ

Website

https://www.hercules-construction.co.uk

Hercules Site Services PLC provides labour and construction services to blue-chip clients in the UK infrastructure sector. has four reportable segments: Labour supply, civil projects, the provision of suction excavator services and other activities. It generates maximum revenue from Labour supply segment. Labour supply is its core business, supplying skilled and qualified labour to construction companies to deliver key infrastructure, civil engineering, utilities, groundworks, highway, and railway projects. Its construction services business is made up of Civil Projects, where it partners with contractors to provide end-to-end project delivery for civil engineering contracts, and Specialist Plant Hire, where the company hires out its fleet of suction excavators.