Global Water Technologies (Global Water Technologies) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.46 (As of Mar. 2002)

Global Water Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Competitive Comparison of Global Water Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Global Water Technologies'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.

Global Water Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Global Water Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Global Water Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Global Water Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2001 is calculated as

Global Water Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2002 is calculated as

* 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 (Mar. 2002) EBITDA data.

Global Water Technologies  (OTCPK:GWTR) 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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