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Automatic Data Processing (MIL:1ADP) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.69 (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Automatic Data Processing Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Automatic Data Processing's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €955 Mil. Automatic Data Processing's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €3,135 Mil. Automatic Data Processing's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was €5,890 Mil. Automatic Data Processing's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 0.69.

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 Automatic Data Processing's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

MIL:1ADP' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0.66   Max: 0.85
Current: 0.7

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Automatic Data Processing was 0.85. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.66.

MIL:1ADP's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
60.07% of 1628 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.05 vs MIL:1ADP: 0.70

Automatic Data Processing Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Automatic Data Processing'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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Automatic Data Processing Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Automatic Data Processing Annual Data
Trend Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.63 0.85 0.79 0.66 0.64

Automatic Data Processing Quarterly Data
Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
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 0.60 0.47 0.70 1.55 0.69

Competitive Comparison of Automatic Data Processing's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Automatic Data Processing'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.


Automatic Data Processing's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Automatic Data Processing's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Automatic Data Processing Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Automatic Data Processing's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(358.037 + 3084.187) / 5384.112
=0.64

Automatic Data Processing's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(955.478 + 3134.597) / 5890.44
=0.69

* 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 (Dec. 2024) EBITDA data.


Automatic Data Processing  (MIL:1ADP) 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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Automatic Data Processing Business Description

Address
One ADP Boulevard, Roseland, NJ, USA, 07068
Automatic Data Processing is a global technology company providing cloud-based human capital management solutions enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. Additionally, ADP provides human resource outsourcing solutions that allow customers to offload some of their traditional HR tasks. The company operates through two segments: employer services and the professional employer organization services. Employer services consists of the company's HCM products as well as a la carte HRO solutions. PEO services contains ADP's comprehensive HRO solution where it acts as a co-employer with its customer. As of fiscal 2024, ADP serves over 1.1 million clients and pays over 42 million workers across 140 countries.

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