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Yext (YEXT) Debt-to-EBITDA : -22.28 (As of Oct. 2024)


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What is Yext Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Yext's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $18.4 Mil. Yext's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $80.3 Mil. Yext's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was $-4.4 Mil. Yext's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was -22.28.

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

YEXT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.22   Med: -1.58   Max: 11.74
Current: 11.74

During the past 10 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Yext was 11.74. The lowest was -3.22. And the median was -1.58.

YEXT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
93.74% of 1645 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.05 vs YEXT: 11.74

Yext Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Yext'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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Yext Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Yext Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -1.23 -1.94 -2.03 -3.22 4.30

Yext Quarterly Data
Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24
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 4.75 3.32 13.85 -68.28 -22.28

Competitive Comparison of Yext's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Yext'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.


Yext's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Yext Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Yext's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(16.798 + 89.562) / 24.741
=4.30

Yext's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(18.38 + 80.293) / -4.428
=-22.28

* 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 (Oct. 2024) EBITDA data.


Yext  (NYSE:YEXT) 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.


Yext Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Yext Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
61 Ninth Avenue, New York, NY, USA, 10011
Yext Inc provides a knowledge engine platform that lets businesses manage their digital knowledge in the cloud and sync it to approximately 200 services including Apple Maps, Bing, Cortana, Facebook, Google, Google Maps, Instagram, Siri and Yelp. Digital knowledge is the structured information that a business wants to make publicly accessible. The company also makes search intelligent by helping to provide precise, accurate and current answers to location-based queries that are conducted across the web and mobile applications and voice and artificial intelligence, or AI, engines. The company derives the majority of its revenues from subscription services. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from North America and the rest from International markets.
Executives
Seth H. Waugh director C/O FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., ONE FRANKLIN PARKWAY, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Ho Shin officer: General Counsel 61 NINTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10011
Brian Distelburger director, officer: President ONE MADISON AVENUE, FIFTH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Julie Richardson director YEXT, INC., 1 MADISON AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Evan Skorpen director C/O YEXT, INC., 61 NINTH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10011
Faheem Bawa officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O YEXT, INC., 61 NINTH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10011
Marc Ferrentino officer: President and COO 61 NINTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10011
Darryl Bond officer: Chief Accounting Officer ONE MADISON AVENUE, FIFTH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Steven Cakebread officer: Chief Financial Officer YEXT, INC., ONE MADISON AVE., FIFTH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
David Rudnitsky officer: Chief Revenue Officer C/O YEXT, INC., 61 NINTH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10011
Howard Lerman director, officer: Chief Executive Officer ONE MADISON AVENUE, FIFTH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Tamar Yehoshua director 301 CONGRESS AVE, STE 700, AUSTIN TX 78701
Shane Battier director 2600 VIRGINIA AVENUE NW, SUITE T23 MANAGEMENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON DC 20037
Hillary B Smith director C/O YEXT, INC, 61 NINTH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10011
Michael Walrath director ONE MADISON AVENUE, FIFTH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010