Signature Eyewear (Signature Eyewear) Debt-to-EBITDA : 14.07 (As of Apr. 2011)

Signature Eyewear Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Signature Eyewear Annual Data
	Trend	Oct01	Oct02	Oct03	Oct04	Oct05	Oct06	Oct07	Oct08	Oct09	Oct10
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					7.40	4.08	4.82	4.02	4.77

Signature Eyewear Quarterly Data
	Jul06	Oct06	Jan07	Apr07	Jul07	Oct07	Jan08	Apr08	Jul08	Oct08	Jan09	Apr09	Jul09	Oct09	Jan10	Apr10	Jul10	Oct10	Jan11	Apr11
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															3.69	3.54	7.37	5.87	14.07

Competitive Comparison of Signature Eyewear's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Signature Eyewear'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.

Signature Eyewear's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Signature Eyewear's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Signature Eyewear Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Signature Eyewear's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2010 is calculated as

Signature Eyewear's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2011 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 (Apr. 2011) EBITDA data.

Signature Eyewear  (OTCPK:SEYE) 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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