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Cepton (Cepton) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.32 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cepton Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Cepton's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.88 Mil. Cepton's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $8.72 Mil. Cepton's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-33.22 Mil. Cepton's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.32.

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

CPTN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.74   Med: -0.26   Max: -0.06
Current: -0.22

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Cepton was -0.06. The lowest was -0.74. And the median was -0.26.

CPTN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1738 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 1.78 vs CPTN: -0.22

Cepton Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cepton'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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Cepton Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Cepton Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
-0.29 -0.06 - -0.74 -0.22

Cepton Quarterly Data
Dec19 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 -0.86 -0.03 -0.03 -0.23 -0.32

Competitive Comparison of Cepton's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, Cepton'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.


Cepton's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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



Cepton Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Cepton'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
=(1.875 + 8.72) / -48.264
=-0.22

Cepton'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
=(1.875 + 8.72) / -33.216
=-0.32

* 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.


Cepton  (NAS:CPTN) 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.


Cepton Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Cepton (Cepton) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
399 West Trimble Road, San Jose, CA, USA, 95131
Cepton Inc provides lidar-based solutions for a range of markets such as automotive, smart cities, smart spaces and smart industrial applications. The company's patented MMT-based lidar technology enables reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions that deliver long range, high resolution 3D perception for smart applications.
Executives
Ming Qiu officer: Controller C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Liqun Han officer: SVP of Operations C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jun Pei director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO and President C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Mark Mccord officer: Chief Technology Officer C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Hideharu Konagaya director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 WEST TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Paul Anawalt officer: General Counsel and Secretary C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Hull Xu officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Jinying Chen officer: Corporate Controller C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Ldv Partners Fund I, L.p. 10 percent owner 24201 SUMMERHILL AVENUE, LOS ALTOS CA 94024
Xiaogang Zhang director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 10 percent owner 4-8-3, TAKANAWA, MINATO-KU, TOKYO M0 1088711
May Wang director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Winston S Fu director, 10 percent owner, officer: CFO and Secretary 24201 SUMMERHILL AVENUE, LOS ALTOS CA 94024
Takayuki Katsuda director C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131
Dongyi Liao officer: SVP of Applications C/O CEPTON, INC., 399 W. TRIMBLE ROAD, SAN JOSE CA 95131