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Diodes (Diodes) Debt-to-EBITDA

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

Diodes's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $54 Mil. Diodes's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $44 Mil. Diodes's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $252 Mil. Diodes's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.39.

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

DIOD' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.23   Med: 0.85   Max: 3.71
Current: 0.23

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Diodes was 3.71. The lowest was 0.23. And the median was 0.85.

DIOD's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
80.14% of 710 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 1.59 vs DIOD: 0.23

Diodes Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Diodes'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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Diodes 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 0.48 2.04 0.75 0.40 0.23

Diodes 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 0.41 0.25 0.16 0.14 0.39

Competitive Comparison

For the Semiconductors subindustry, Diodes'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.


Diodes Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Diodes Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Diodes'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
=(53.996 + 44.362) / 420.963
=0.23

Diodes'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
=(53.996 + 44.362) / 251.972
=0.39

* 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.


Diodes  (NAS:DIOD) 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.


Diodes Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Diodes (Diodes) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4949 Hedgcoxe Road, Suite 200, Plano, TX, USA, 75024
Diodes Inc is a manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific products within the broad discrete, logic, analog, and mixed-signal semiconductor markets. It serves the customer electronics, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive markets. The Company's products include diodes; rectifiers; transistors; MOSFETs; GPP bridges; GPP rectifiers; protection devices; function-specific arrays; single gate logic; amplifiers and comparators; Hall-effect and temperature sensors; and power management devices, including LED drivers, AC-DC converters and controllers, DC-DC switching and linear voltage regulators, voltage references along with special-function devices, such as USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers.
Executives
Gary Yu officer: SVP, Business Groups 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Andy Tsong officer: President, Diodes Asia 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Peter M Menard director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Keh Shew Lu director C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Emily Yang officer: VP Worldwide Sales/Marketing 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Richard Dallas White officer: Sr. VP of Finance 3050 E. HILLCREST DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362
Jin Zhao officer: VP, Worldwide Analog Products 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Elizabeth Bull director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Brett R Whitmire officer: CFO, Effective 3/1/2019 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Michael R Giordano director C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Julie Holland officer: VP WW Analog Products 15660 DALLAS PARKWAY, SUITE 850, DALLAS TX 75248
Evan Yu officer: VP Worldwide Analog Products 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024
Francis Tang officer: VP, Product Development 3050 E. HILLCREST DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362
C H Chen director, officer: President & CEO C/O DIODES INC, 3050 E HILLCREST DR, WESTLAKE CA 91362
Button Angie Chen director 4949 HEDGCOXE ROAD, SUITE 200, PLANO TX 75024