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Sterling Infrastructure (STU:UAO) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.52 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Sterling Infrastructure Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Sterling Infrastructure's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €42 Mil. Sterling Infrastructure's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €317 Mil. Sterling Infrastructure's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €237 Mil. Sterling Infrastructure's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.52.

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 Sterling Infrastructure's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

STU:UAO' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.49   Med: 2.43   Max: 9.75
Current: 1.33

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Sterling Infrastructure was 9.75. The lowest was 0.49. And the median was 2.43.

STU:UAO's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
65.19% of 1307 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 2.31 vs STU:UAO: 1.33

Sterling Infrastructure Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sterling Infrastructure'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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Sterling Infrastructure Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Sterling Infrastructure Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 8.62 3.08 3.31 2.31 1.44

Sterling Infrastructure Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 2.40 1.39 1.36 1.30 1.52

Competitive Comparison of Sterling Infrastructure's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Sterling Infrastructure'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.


Sterling Infrastructure's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Sterling Infrastructure's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sterling Infrastructure Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Sterling Infrastructure's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(42.33 + 323.442) / 254.319
=1.44

Sterling Infrastructure's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(41.963 + 317.309) / 236.568
=1.52

* 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 (Mar. 2024) EBITDA data.


Sterling Infrastructure  (STU:UAO) 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.


Sterling Infrastructure Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Sterling Infrastructure (STU:UAO) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1800 Hughes Landing Boulevard, Suite 250, The Woodlands, TX, USA, 77380
Sterling Infrastructure Inc is a construction company that specializes in heavy civil infrastructure construction and infrastructure rehabilitation as well as residential construction projects. The company operates in three reportable segments namely, Transportation Solutions, E-Infrastructure Solutions, and Building Solution. Transportation Solutions include highways, roads, bridges, airfields, ports, light rail, and others. Building Solution projects include concrete foundations for single-family homes. E-Infrastructure Solutions include the services which are provided to large, blue-chip companies in the e-commerce, data center, distribution center, and warehousing, energy, mixed-use, and multi-family sectors. The majority of the revenue is generated from E-Infrastructure Solutions. .

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