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PHLT (Performant Healthcare) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.20 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Performant Healthcare Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Performant Healthcare's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $0.2 Mil. Performant Healthcare's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $8.7 Mil. Performant Healthcare's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $7.4 Mil. Performant Healthcare's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 1.20.

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

PHLT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -9.48   Med: 4.88   Max: 70.63
Current: 4.57

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Performant Healthcare was 70.63. The lowest was -9.48. And the median was 4.88.

PHLT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
70.52% of 458 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 2.465 vs PHLT: 4.57

Performant Healthcare Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Performant Healthcare'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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Performant Healthcare Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Performant Healthcare Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -9.48 2.88 70.63 6.70 -4.00

Performant Healthcare Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 -0.63 -3.47 -54.06 2.82 1.20

Competitive Comparison of Performant Healthcare's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Health Information Services subindustry, Performant Healthcare'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.


Performant Healthcare's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Performant Healthcare's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Performant Healthcare Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Performant Healthcare's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.383 + 8.462) / -2.21
=-4.00

Performant Healthcare's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.163 + 8.723) / 7.384
=1.20

* 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. 2025) EBITDA data.


Performant Healthcare  (NAS:PHLT) 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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Performant Healthcare Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
900 South Pine Island Road, Suite 150, Plantation, FL, USA, 33324
Performant Healthcare Inc provides solutions to payers in the healthcare industry to identify, prevent, and recover waste and improper payments by leveraging technology, analytics, and proprietary data assets.
Executives
Lisa Im officer: Chief Executive Officer C/O PERFORMANT FINANCIAL CORPORATION, 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Capital Management, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH UTICA, SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6429
Rohit Ramchandani officer: Chief Financial Officer 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Ecmc Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 1 IMATION PLACE, BLDG 2, SUITE 392A, OAKDALE MN 55128
Parthenon Dcs Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcp Managers Gp, Llc 10 percent owner FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Eric Yanagi director 400 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD, SUITE 526, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Parthenon Investors Ii. L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 400 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Partners Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcp Managers, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
James Lacamp director 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Master Fund Gp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Ii Lp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Lp 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529