News Communications (News Communications) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.42 (As of Dec. 2004)

News Communications Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

News Communications Annual Data
	Trend	Nov96	Nov97	Nov98	Nov99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial				-0.06	-0.02	-0.13	-0.27	-0.42

News Communications Semi-Annual Data
	Nov96	Nov97	Nov98	Nov99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial				-0.06	-0.02	-0.13	-0.27	-0.42

Competitive Comparison of News Communications's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Publishing subindustry, News Communications'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.

News Communications's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry

For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, News Communications's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

News Communications Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

News Communications's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2004 is calculated as

News Communications's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2004 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 one times the quarterly (Dec. 2004) EBITDA data.

News Communications  (OTCPK:NWCM) 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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