Orient Telecoms (LSE:ORNT) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.96 (As of Sep. 2023)

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What is Orient Telecoms Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Orient Telecoms's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.05 Mil. Orient Telecoms's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.10 Mil. Orient Telecoms's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £0.16 Mil. Orient Telecoms's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.96.

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 Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:ORNT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.75 Med: 1.26 Max: 2.08
Current: 0.75

During the past 7 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Orient Telecoms was 2.08. The lowest was 0.75. And the median was 1.26.

LSE:ORNT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
77.99% of 318 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 2.1 vs LSE:ORNT: 0.75

Orient Telecoms Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Orient Telecoms Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Orient Telecoms Annual Data

Trend

Mar17

Mar18

Mar19

Mar20

Mar21

Mar22

Mar23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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0.83

1.17

2.08

1.35

Orient Telecoms Semi-Annual Data
	Sep17	Mar18	Sep18	Mar19	Sep19	Mar20	Sep20	Mar21	Sep21	Mar22	Sep22	Mar23	Sep23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial								0.90	3.35	4.29	0.85	0.96

Competitive Comparison of Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Orient Telecoms'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.

Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Orient Telecoms Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Orient Telecoms's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.099	+	0.106)	/	0.152
	=	1.35

Orient Telecoms's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.048	+	0.101)	/	0.156
	=	0.96

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. 2023) EBITDA data.

Orient Telecoms (LSE:ORNT) 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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Orient Telecoms (LSE:ORNT) Business Description

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Traded in Other Exchanges

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Address

Jalan Stesen Sentral 5, Suite 2B-25-1, 25th Floor, Plaza Sentral, Block 2B, Kuala Lumpur, SGR, MYS, 50470

Website

https://www.orient-telecoms.com

Orient Telecoms PLC is a company that provides telecommunication services using the network infrastructure owned by other network operators to enable cost-effective and rapid connectivity to large bandwidth consumers initially in Malaysia and subsequently within other Southeast Asian countries. It operates in a highly competitive and saturated market as the company is not involved in building its own network infrastructure which would require significant capital expenditure.

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