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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.41 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $4.3 Mil. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $619.3 Mil. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $258.4 Mil. Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.41.

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

AMPH' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -14.14   Med: 1.74   Max: 10.61
Current: 2.6

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals was 10.61. The lowest was -14.14. And the median was 1.74.

AMPH's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
61.91% of 659 companies
in the Drug Manufacturers industry
Industry Median: 1.66 vs AMPH: 2.60

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Amphastar Pharmaceuticals'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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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals 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 0.82 2.23 0.94 0.70 2.60

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 0.52 0.62 3.04 1.85 2.41

Competitive Comparison of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic subindustry, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals'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.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Drug Manufacturers Industry

For the Drug Manufacturers industry and Healthcare sector, Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals'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
=(4.342 + 619.3) / 240.294
=2.60

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
=(4.342 + 619.3) / 258.36
=2.41

* 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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Amphastar Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:AMPH) 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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Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (Amphastar Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
11570 6th Street, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA, 91730
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses primarily on developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling technically challenging generic and proprietary injectable, inhalation, and intranasal products. Additionally, the company sells insulin API products. The company's finished products are used in hospital or urgent care clinical settings and are contracted and distributed through group purchasing organizations and drug wholesalers. The company has two reportable segments finished pharmaceutical products and API products. Geographically the business presence of the firm is seen in the United States, China and France of which the U.S. accounts for the majority of the revenue.
Executives
Mary Z. Luo director, 10 percent owner, officer: COO and Chief Scientist 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Floyd F. Petersen director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Rong Zhou officer: EVP, Production C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC., 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard K Prins director
William J Peters officer: CFO, SVP & Treasurer C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Yakob Liawatidewi officer: SVP Corp Admin Center C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS INC, 11570 SIXTH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Michael A Zasloff director
Gayle Deflin director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Diane G. Gerst officer: EVP, QA & Regulatory Affairs 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Howard Lee director 13F-2, NO. 36, LANE 48, SECTION 3, NAN-JING EAST ROAD, TAIPEI, TAIWAN F4 00000
Jack Y. Zhang director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO & Chief Scientific Officer 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
David Maris director C/O AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Richard Koo director 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Jason B. Shandell director, officer: President 11570 6TH STREET, RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA 91730
Applied Physics & Chemistry Laboratories, Inc. 10 percent owner 13760 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, CHINO CA 91710