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Porvair (LSE:PRV) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.63 (As of Nov. 2023)


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What is Porvair Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Porvair's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £4.8 Mil. Porvair's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £11.3 Mil. Porvair's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was £25.8 Mil. Porvair's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was 0.63.

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

LSE:PRV' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.17   Med: 0.46   Max: 1.33
Current: 0.58

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Porvair was 1.33. The lowest was 0.17. And the median was 0.46.

LSE:PRV's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
72.87% of 2296 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.72 vs LSE:PRV: 0.58

Porvair Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Porvair'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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Porvair Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Porvair Annual Data
Trend Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.48 1.33 0.81 0.45 0.58

Porvair Semi-Annual Data
May14 Nov14 May15 Nov15 May16 Nov16 May17 Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 May20 Nov20 May21 Nov21 May22 Nov22 May23 Nov23
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 0.95 0.59 0.45 0.37 0.63

Competitive Comparison of Porvair's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Porvair'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.


Porvair's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Porvair's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Porvair Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Porvair's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(4.844 + 11.342) / 27.816
=0.58

Porvair's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(4.844 + 11.342) / 25.824
=0.63

* 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 (Nov. 2023) EBITDA data.


Porvair  (LSE:PRV) 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.


Porvair Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Porvair (LSE:PRV) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7 Regis Place, Bergen Way, King's Lynn, Norfolk, GBR, PE30 2JN
Porvair PLC is an environmental treatment control company. It develops filtration solutions to be used by various types of industries. The company caters to its clients through three divisions, Aerospace and Industrial, Laboratory and Metal Melt Quality. Aerospace and Industrial Division is a key revenue generator, designs and manufactures specialist filtration equipment for application in aerospace, energy, bioscience, water and industrial applications. Laboratory Division designs and manufactures instruments and consumables for use in environmental and bioscience laboratories. Metal Melt Quality Division designs and manufactures porous ceramic filters for the filtration of molten metals. The company generates majority of its manufacturing revenue from sales in the United States.

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