Alten (XPAR:ATE) Debt-to-EBITDA : (As of Dec. 2025)

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XPAR:ATE Alten XPAR:ATE
98 GF Score
Price €66.10
GF Value €101.27
Valuation Significantly Undervalued
! 3 Warning Signs
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What is Alten Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Alten's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2025 was €121 Mil. Alten's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2025 was €169 Mil. Alten's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2025 was €264 Mil. Alten's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2025 was 1.10.

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

XPAR:ATE' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.24   Med: 0.59   Max: 0.94
Current: 0.94

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Alten was 0.94. The lowest was 0.24. And the median was 0.59.

XPAR:ATE's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
51.13% of 1727 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.99 vs XPAR:ATE: 0.94

Alten  (XPAR:ATE) 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.


Alten Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms


Alten Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Alten'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.

Alten Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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XPAR:ATE vs IBM, ACN, CTSH: Debt-to-EBITDA Comparison

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Alten'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.


Alten Debt-to-EBITDA vs Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Alten's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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


XPAR:ATE
98GF Score
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Alten Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Alten'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
=(120.619 + 168.531) / 308.633
=0.94

Alten's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
=(120.619 + 168.531) / 263.904
=1.10

* 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 (Dec. 2025) EBITDA data.

Is Alten (XPAR:ATE) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Alten stock appears to be undervalued. The current stock price of €66.10 is trading 34.7% below its estimated GF Value™ of €101.27. GuruFocus considers Alten to be Significantly Undervalued.

Key valuation signals for XPAR:ATE:

  • Debt-to-EBITDA:
  • GF Value™: €101.27 vs. price of €66.10 (34.7% below fair value)
  • GF Score™: 98/100 with 3 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the XPAR:ATE stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.


Alten Business Description

Address 40, avenue Andre-Morizet, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, Paris, FRA, 92513
Alten is an engineering and technology consulting firm. The company provides design and research projects for the technical and information systems divisions of corporate clients in the industrial, telecommunications, and service sectors. Alten's business consists of three operating segments: engineering and technology consulting; telecoms and networks; and information systems. The engineering and technology consulting segment contributes the majority of group revenue. Alten generates approximately half of its revenue in France with most of the balance derived in other European countries.
98GF Score

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