NoFire Technologies (NoFire Technologies) Debt-to-EBITDA : -1.10 (As of May. 2010)

NoFire Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

NoFire Technologies Annual Data
	Trend	Aug00	Aug01	Aug02	Aug03	Aug04	Aug05	Aug06	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-1.12	-1.39	-1.29	-0.59	-1.07

NoFire Technologies Quarterly Data
	Aug05	Nov05	Feb06	May06	Aug06	Nov06	Feb07	May07	Aug07	Nov07	Feb08	May08	Aug08	Nov08	Feb09	May09	Aug09	Nov09	Feb10	May10
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-0.47	-1.36	-0.97	-2.43	-1.10

Competitive Comparison of NoFire Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, NoFire Technologies'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.

NoFire Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, NoFire Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

NoFire Technologies Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

NoFire Technologies's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2009 is calculated as

NoFire Technologies's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in May. 2010 is calculated as

* 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 (May. 2010) EBITDA data.

NoFire Technologies  (OTCPK:NFTI) 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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