PCT (PureCycle Technologies) Debt-to-EBITDA : (As of Jun. 2026)

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What is PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

PureCycle Technologies's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $9.86 Mil. PureCycle Technologies's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $803.35 Mil. PureCycle Technologies's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was $-472.93 Mil. PureCycle Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 was -1.72.

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

PCT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -10.7   Med: -3.5   Max: -1.14
Current: -4

During the past 7 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of PureCycle Technologies was -1.14. The lowest was -10.70. And the median was -3.50.

PCT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 2319 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.69 vs PCT: -4.00

PureCycle Technologies  (NAS:PCT) 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.

PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for PureCycle Technologies'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.

PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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PCT vs ERII, ARQ, SCWO: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, PureCycle Technologies'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.

PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA vs Industrial Products Industry

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

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


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PureCycle Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

PureCycle Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2025 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(17.077 + 706.749) / -83.483
=-8.67

PureCycle Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2026 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(9.856 + 803.346) / -472.932
=-1.72

* 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 (Jun. 2026) EBITDA data.

PureCycle Technologies Business Description

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Address 20 North Orange Avenue, Suite 106, Orlando, FL, USA, 32801
PureCycle Technologies Inc is a Florida-based corporation focused on commercializing a patented dissolution process to physically separate the polymer from other plastics, color, and contaminants (the Technology), originally developed by The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), for restoring waste polypropylene into resin with near-virgin characteristics, called PureFive resin. PureFive resin represents the family of recycled resin products produced, including ultra-pure resin and other grades used for compounding to meet customer specifications, which has similar properties and applicability for reuse as virgin polypropylene. It has a single operating segment, which encompasses integrated business activities related to the recycling of polypropylene into resins.
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