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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.90 (As of Jun. 2014)


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What is Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF14.4 Mil. Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF1.9 Mil. Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was CHF18.1 Mil. Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 was 0.90.

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 Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

XSWX:ADBN's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.8
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding'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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.73 1.70 0.94 0.55 0.71

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Semi-Annual Data
Dec09 Jun10 Dec10 Jun11 Dec11 Jun12 Dec12 Jun13 Dec13 Jun14
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.78 1.21 0.59 -0.76 0.90

Competitive Comparison of Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding'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.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(8.208 + 7.151) / 21.52
=0.71

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2014 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(14.399 + 1.893) / 18.12
=0.90

* 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 (Jun. 2014) EBITDA data.


Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding  (XSWX:ADBN) 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Business Description

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding SA was incorporated on July 26, 2004 in the Canton of Geneva. The Company is engaged in the development and sale of equipment, services and software for the digital television and broadband data communication industry, and relies on third party contract manufacturers for the production of equipment. In 2005, the Company made an initial public offering. It develops and delivers diverse products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms such as cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Its customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes. The Company is in system integration, incorporating the industry's middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short time as possible.

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