Toast (TOST) Debt-to-EBITDA

: -0.24 (As of Dec. 2023)

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

Toast's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $11 Mil. Toast's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $33 Mil. Toast's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-184 Mil. Toast's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.24.

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

TOST' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.82 Med: -0.26 Max: -0.05
Current: -0.17

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Toast was -0.05. The lowest was -0.82. And the median was -0.26.

TOST's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1591 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.03 vs TOST: -0.17

Toast Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Toast'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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Array ( [0] => -0.05 [1] => -0.82 [2] => -0.48 [3] => -0.26 [4] => -0.17 )

Toast Annual Data

Trend

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Dec23

Debt-to-EBITDA

-0.05

-0.82

-0.48

-0.26

-0.17

Toast Quarterly Data
	Dec19	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA												-0.25	-0.27	-0.12	-0.16	-0.24

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Toast'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.

Toast Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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

Toast Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Toast'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
	=	(11	+	33)	/	-255
	=	-0.17

Toast'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
	=	(11	+	33)	/	-184
	=	-0.24

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.

Toast (NYSE:TOST) 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.

Toast Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Toast (TOST) Business Description

Industry

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Address

401 Park Drive, Suite 801, Boston, MA, USA, 02215

Website

https://www.toasttab.com

Toast is a U.S.-based restaurant technology company that provides point-of-sale, payment processing, and various software services to 99,000 restaurant locations across the United States at the end of September 2023. The firm generates sales from software subscription fees, as a percentage take rate from each financial transaction it processes, from loan origination and servicing fees from its Toast Capital arm, and from hardware installation and professional services. Unlike competitors, Toast intermediates every payment transaction on its platform, processing some $92 billion in gross platform volume in 2022. The firm's product offerings span point-of-sale systems, inventory and payroll management, delivery integration, e-commerce ordering, reservation management, and loyalty programs.

Executives

James Michael Matlock	officer: Principal Accounting Officer	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Brian R Elworthy	officer: General Counsel	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Aman Narang	director, officer: See Remarks	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Elena Gomez	officer: Chief Financial Officer	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Stephen Fredette	director, officer: Co-President	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Christopher P Comparato	director, officer: Chief Executive Officer	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, BOSTON MA 02215
Bessemer Venture Partners Ix L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS, 1865 PALMER AVENUE, SUITE 104, LARCHMONT NY 10538
David Yuan	director	250 MIDDLEFIELD RD, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Mark J Hawkins	director	C/O LOGITECH, INC., 6505 KAISER DRIVE, FREMONT CA 94555
Richard Kent Bennett	director	1865 PALMER AVENUE, SUITE 104, LARCHMONT NY 10538
Technology Investment Dining Group, Llc	10 percent owner	18 BANK STREET, LEBANON NH 03766
Jonathan Grimm	10 percent owner, officer: Chief Technology Officer	TOAST, INC., 401 PARK DRIVE, SUITE 801, BOSTON MA 02215
Paul D Bell	director	C/O DELL INC., ONE DELL WAY, ROUND ROCK TX 78682-2244
Hmi Capital Management, L.p.	10 percent owner	555 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 4900, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Hmi Capital Partners, L.p.	10 percent owner	C/O HMI CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P., 555 CALIFORNIA STREET, SUITE 4900, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104