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SP Plus (FRA:PZA) Debt-to-EBITDA

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

SP Plus's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €67 Mil. SP Plus's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €453 Mil. SP Plus's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was €80 Mil. SP Plus's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 6.46.

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

FRA:PZA' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.63   Med: 3.54   Max: 6.8
Current: 4.97

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of SP Plus was 6.80. The lowest was -3.63. And the median was 3.54.

FRA:PZA's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
78.86% of 823 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 1.88 vs FRA:PZA: 4.97

SP Plus Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for SP Plus'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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SP Plus 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 6.80 -3.63 6.40 4.98 4.97

SP Plus 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 6.23 5.26 4.24 4.76 6.47

Competitive Comparison

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, SP Plus'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.


SP Plus Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SP Plus's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



SP Plus Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

SP Plus'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
=(66.666 + 452.631) / 104.446
=4.97

SP Plus'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
=(66.666 + 452.631) / 80.328
=6.46

* 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.


SP Plus  (FRA:PZA) 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.


SP Plus Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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SP Plus (FRA:PZA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
200 East Randolph Street, Suite 7700, Chicago, IL, USA, 60601-7702
SP Plus Corp Provides parking management, ground transportation, and other ancillary services to commercial, institutional, and municipal clients in urban markets and airports across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Its services include a comprehensive set of on-site parking management and ground transportation services, In addition, the company also provides a range of ancillary services such as airport and municipal shuttle operations, valet services, taxi and livery dispatch services, and municipal meter revenue collection and enforcement services. Its reportable segments are Commercial and Aviation. The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Commercial segment.