Advanced Disposal Services (Advanced Disposal Services) Debt-to-EBITDA : 4.90 (As of Jun. 2020)

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What is Advanced Disposal Services Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Advanced Disposal Services's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $41 Mil. Advanced Disposal Services's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $1,763 Mil. Advanced Disposal Services's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was $368 Mil. Advanced Disposal Services's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 was 4.90.

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 Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

ADSW' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.89 Med: 5.99 Max: 7.59
Current: 4.89

During the past 8 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Advanced Disposal Services was 7.59. The lowest was 4.89. And the median was 5.99.

ADSW's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked
in the Waste Management industry.
Industry Median: 3.5 vs ADSW: 4.89

Advanced Disposal Services Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Advanced Disposal Services Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Advanced Disposal Services Annual Data

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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6.53

5.99

5.44

5.00

5.30

Advanced Disposal Services Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															6.24	4.67	5.06	5.92	4.90

Competitive Comparison of Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Waste Management subindustry, Advanced Disposal Services'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.

Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Advanced Disposal Services Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Advanced Disposal Services's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(76.1	+	1792.1)	/	352.7
	=	5.30

Advanced Disposal Services's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(41.3	+	1762.7)	/	368
	=	4.90

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 (Jun. 2020) EBITDA data.

Advanced Disposal Services (NYSE:ADSW) 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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Advanced Disposal Services (Advanced Disposal Services) Business Description

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Address

90 Fort Wade Road, Suite 200, Ponte Vedra, FL, USA, 32081

Website

https://www.advanceddisposal.com

Advanced Disposal Services Inc provides fresh ideas and solutions to the business of a clean environment. It offers non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services to the commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers. It offers other services, such as landfill gas-to-energy operations at municipal solid waste landfills; management of third-party owned landfills; customer service charges relating to overdue payments, and customer administrative fees relating to customers. Geographically, it operates through the Southeast, Midwest and Eastern regions of the United States, as well as from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Executives

Tanuja M Dehne	director	C/O SILVER BAY REALTY TRUST CORP., 601 CARLSON PARKWAY, SUITE 250, MINNETONKA MN 55305
E Renae Conley	director	414 SILVER AVE SW MS 1275, ALBUQUERQUE NM 87102-3289
B Clyde Preslar	director	305 GREGSON DRIVE, CARY NC 27518
Melissa Westerman	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	5950 HAZELTINE NATIONAL DRIVE, SUITE 650, ORLANDO FL 32822
Burke Richard L. Jr.	director, officer: Chief Exec. Officer & Director	90 FORT WADE ROAD, PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
John S. Spegal	officer: Chief Operating Officer	90 FORT WADE ROAD PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
Steven R. Carn	officer: Executive Vice President & CFO	90 FORT WADE ROAD PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
Michael K Slattery	officer: Senior VP, Gen Coun, Secretary	90 FORT WADE ROAD PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
Michael J Hoffman	director	1400 WEST 94TH STREET, BLOOMINGTON MN 55431
Ernest J Mrozek	director	SERVICE MASTER, 2300 WARRENVILLE ROAD, DOWNERS GROVE IL 60515
Highstar Capital Lp	10 percent owner	277 PARK AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10172
Star Atlantic Waste Holdings, L.p.	10 percent owner	277 PARK AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10172
Star Atlantic Gp, Inc.	10 percent owner	277 PARK AVENUE, 45TH FLOOR NEW YORK NY 10172
Matthew C. Gunnelson	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	90 FORT WADE ROAD PONTE VEDRA FL 32081
William W. Westrate	officer: Chief Administrative Officer	90 FORT WADE ROAD PONTE VEDRA FL 32081