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Finisar (Finisar) Debt-to-EBITDA : 7.93 (As of Jul. 2019)


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What is Finisar Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Finisar's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was $0 Mil. Finisar's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was $517 Mil. Finisar's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was $65 Mil. Finisar's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 was 7.93.

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

FNSR's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 1.805
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Finisar Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

Finisar Annual Data
Trend Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.77 1.62 2.54 5.82 5.67

Finisar Quarterly Data
Oct14 Jan15 Apr15 Jul15 Oct15 Jan16 Apr16 Jul16 Oct16 Jan17 Apr17 Jul17 Oct17 Jan18 Apr18 Jul18 Oct18 Jan19 Apr19 Jul19
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 13.37 6.81 4.19 6.97 7.93

Competitive Comparison of Finisar's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Finisar'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.


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

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

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



Finisar Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Finisar's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2019 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0 + 512.105) / 90.382
=5.67

Finisar's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jul. 2019 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0 + 516.746) / 65.132
=7.93

* 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 (Jul. 2019) EBITDA data.


Finisar  (NAS:FNSR) 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.


Finisar Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Finisar (Finisar) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1389 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, 94089
Founded in 1987, Finisar is a California-based large provider of fiber optical modules and components that are used in data communications and telecommunications. Its products include transceivers and wavelength switches for data center interconnects, and intracity/metro and long-haul communications. Finisar sells to manufacturers of storage systems and network equipment and their OEMs, which in turn sell to telecom service providers and cloud vendors.
Executives
Michael L Dreyer director C/O F5 NETWORKS, INC., 401 ELLIOTT AVE. WEST, SEATTLE WA 98119
Michael C Child director 125 HIGH ST STE 2500, BOSTON MA 02110
Thomas E Pardun director C/O WESTERN DIGITAL CORPORATION, 3355 MICHELSON DR, SUITE 100, IRVINE CA 92612
Helene Simonet director
Jerry S Rawls director 1308 MOFFETT PARK DRIVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94089-1133
Robert Stephens director 3102 MONTANA DEL SOL, SAN CLEMENTE CA 92673
Kurt Adzema officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 1389 MOFFETT PARK DRIVE, SUNNYVALE CA 94089
Michael E. Hurlston director, officer: CEO 5300 CALIFORNIA AVENUE, IRVINE CA 92617
Eitan Gertel director, officer: CEO 11780 U.S. HIGHWAY 1, SUITE 600, PALM BEACH GARDENS FL 33408
Dominique Trempont director 5 RANDALL PLACE, MENLO PARK CA 94025
Christopher J Crespi director C/O SIRENZA MICRODEVICES, INC., 303 SOUTH TECHNOLOGY COURT, BROOMFIELD CO 80021
Morgan M Jones director C/O BATTERY VENTURES, 20 WILLIAM ST STE 200, WELLESLEY MA 02481
Frank H Levinson director 3736 FALLON ROAD #428, DUBLIN CA 94568
Harold Hughes director C/O RAMBUS INC., 1050 ENTERPRISE WAY, SUITE 700, SUNNYVALE CA 94089