Medical Care Service Company (NGO:2494) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.72 (As of Feb. 2013)

Medical Care Service Company Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Medical Care Service Company Quarterly Data
	Aug10	Feb11	May11	Aug11	Nov11	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.26	1.24	1.52	3.18	1.72

Competitive Comparison of Medical Care Service Company's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Medical Care Service Company'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.

Medical Care Service Company's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Medical Care Service Company's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Medical Care Service Company's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.

Medical Care Service Company Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Medical Care Service Company's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2011 is calculated as

Medical Care Service Company's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2013 is calculated as

* 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 (Feb. 2013) EBITDA data.

Medical Care Service Company  (NGO:2494) 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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