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Liberty Latin America (LTS:0MDS) Debt-to-EBITDA : -12.11 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Liberty Latin America Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Liberty Latin America's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $638 Mil. Liberty Latin America's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $7,606 Mil. Liberty Latin America's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $-681 Mil. Liberty Latin America's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was -12.11.

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 Liberty Latin America's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LTS:0MDS' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.94   Med: 7.02   Max: 13.57
Current: 9.12

During the past 11 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Liberty Latin America was 13.57. The lowest was 4.94. And the median was 7.02.

LTS:0MDS's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
90.25% of 318 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 2.415 vs LTS:0MDS: 9.12

Liberty Latin America Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Liberty Latin America'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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Liberty Latin America Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Liberty Latin America Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 7.75 13.57 6.51 5.92 5.34

Liberty Latin America Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 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 4.53 5.97 4.99 6.38 -12.11

Competitive Comparison of Liberty Latin America's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Liberty Latin America'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.


Liberty Latin America's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

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

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



Liberty Latin America Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Liberty Latin America's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(666.2 + 7598) / 1547.6
=5.34

Liberty Latin America'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
=(637.8 + 7606.3) / -680.8
=-12.11

* 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 (Sep. 2024) EBITDA data.


Liberty Latin America  (LTS:0MDS) 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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Liberty Latin America Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2 Church Street, Hamilton, BMU, HM 11
Liberty Latin America Ltd is a telecommunications company. It is a provider of video, broadband internet, fixed-line telephony, and mobile services to residential and business customers. The company's reportable segments include C&W Caribbean, Liberty Networks, C&W Panama, VTR, Liberty Puerto Rico, and Liberty Costa Rica. The company generates the majority of its revenue from C&W Caribbean, and Liberty Puerto Rico segments.

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