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Sun Art Retail Group (Sun Art Retail Group) Debt-to-EBITDA : 222.57 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Sun Art Retail Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Sun Art Retail Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $358 Mil. Sun Art Retail Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $801 Mil. Sun Art Retail Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $5 Mil. Sun Art Retail Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 222.57.

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 Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

SURRF' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0.53   Max: 11.46
Current: 11.46

During the past 12 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Sun Art Retail Group was 11.46. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.53.

SURRF's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
88.7% of 841 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 2.68 vs SURRF: 11.46

Sun Art Retail Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sun Art Retail Group'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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Sun Art Retail Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Sun Art Retail Group Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Mar22 Mar23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.37 1.08 0.92 1.90 1.61

Sun Art Retail Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun13 Dec13 Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 7.00 -6.80 7.35 5.70 222.57

Competitive Comparison of Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Department Stores subindustry, Sun Art Retail Group'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.


Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Sun Art Retail Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Sun Art Retail Group's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(325.502 + 793.655) / 697.151
=1.61

Sun Art Retail Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(358.185 + 800.504) / 5.206
=222.57

* 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 two times the quarterly (Sep. 2023) EBITDA data.


Sun Art Retail Group  (OTCPK:SURRF) 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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Sun Art Retail Group (Sun Art Retail Group) Business Description

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Address
183 Queen’s Road East, Level 54, Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong, HKG
Sun Art Retail Group Ltd is a hypermarket operator in China. As of 2019, the company had 491 hypermarket complexes under two banners: Auchan and RT-Mart, with a total gross floor area of 13.68 million square meters. Sun Art operates its business with hypermarkets, superstores, and mini stores under RT-Super and RT-Mini.

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