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Canon (FRA:CNN1) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 0.72 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Canon's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €2,686 Mil. Canon's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €609 Mil. Canon's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €4,589 Mil. Canon's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.72.

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

FRA:CNN1' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0.77   Max: 1.41
Current: 0.82

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Canon was 1.41. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.77.

FRA:CNN1's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
68.82% of 1732 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.765 vs FRA:CNN1: 0.82

Canon Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Canon'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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Canon Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.19 1.41 0.61 0.72 0.82

Canon 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 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.58 0.99 1.03 1.22 0.72

Competitive Comparison

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Canon'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.


Canon Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Canon Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Canon'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
=(2686.13 + 608.597) / 4023.281
=0.82

Canon'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
=(2686.13 + 608.597) / 4589.208
=0.72

* 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.


Canon  (FRA:CNN1) 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.


Canon Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Canon (FRA:CNN1) Business Description

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30-2, Shimomaruko 3-Chome, Ohta-ku, Tokyo, JPN, 146-8501
Canon Inc designs, manufactures and distributes an extensive range of consumer and electronic products, including copiers, cameras, lenses, and inkjet printers. The company operates four major business segments: printing, imaging, medical, industrial, and others. It generates maximum revenue from the printing segment. Printing Business Unit includes Office multifunction devices (MFDs), Document solutions, Laser multifunction printers (MFPs), Laser printers, Inkjet printers, Image scanners, Calculators, Digital continuous feed presses, Digital sheet-fed presses, and Large format printers.

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