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Dayforce (Dayforce) Debt-to-EBITDA

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

Dayforce's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $15 Mil. Dayforce's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,229 Mil. Dayforce's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $371 Mil. Dayforce's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.35.

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

DAY' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.7   Med: 11.83   Max: 50.94
Current: 4.7

During the past 9 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Dayforce was 50.94. The lowest was 4.70. And the median was 11.83.

DAY's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
82.41% of 1592 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs DAY: 4.70

Dayforce Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dayforce'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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Dayforce Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.78 12.51 50.94 22.94 4.70

Dayforce 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 10.19 5.24 6.01 5.18 3.35

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Dayforce'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.


Dayforce Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Dayforce Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Dayforce'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
=(14.6 + 1229) / 264.6
=4.70

Dayforce'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
=(14.6 + 1229) / 371.2
=3.35

* 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.


Dayforce  (NYSE:DAY) 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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Dayforce (Dayforce) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3311 East Old Shakopee Road, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 55425
Ceridian HCM provides payroll and human capital management solutions targeting clients with 100-100,000 employees. Following the 2012 acquisition of Dayforce, Ceridian pivoted away from its legacy on-premises Bureau business to become a cloud HCM provider. As of fiscal 2022, about 80% of group revenue was derived from the flagship Dayforce platform geared toward enterprise clients. The remaining revenue is about evenly split between cloud platform Powerpay, targeting small businesses in Canada, and legacy Bureau products.
Executives
Noemie Clemence Heuland officer: EVP, CFO C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Leagh Erin Turner officer: President 228 DOUGLAS DRIVE, TORONTO A6 M4W 2C1
Stephen H. Holdridge officer: EVP, Chief Customer Officer MICROSTRATEGY INCORPORATED, 1850 TOWERS CRESCENT PLAZA, TYSONS CORNER VA 22182
Joseph B Korngiebel officer: EVP, CPTO C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
William Everett Mcdonald officer: EVP, GC & Corporate Secretary C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDINGS INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425-1361
Samer Alkharrat officer: EVP, Chief Revenue Officer 1300 SEAPORT BLVD, SUITE 500, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Christopher R Armstrong officer: EVP, Chief Customer Officer C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Jeffrey Scott Jacobs officer: Head of Acct & Fin Reporting C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Rakesh Subramanian officer: EVP, Chief Revenue Officer C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
David D Ossip director, officer: Chairman and CEO C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Thomas M Hagerty director C/O THOMAS H. LEE PARTNERS, L.P., 100 FEDERAL STREET, 35 FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110
Gerald C Throop director C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Cannae Holdings, Inc. director, 10 percent owner C/O CANNAE HOLDINGS, INC., 1701 VILLAGE CENTER CIRCLE, LAS VEGAS NV 89134
Scott A Kitching officer: EVP, GC & Assistant Secretary C/O CERIDIAN HCM HOLDING INC., 3311 EAST OLD SHAKOPEE ROAD, MINNEAPOLIS MN 55425
Thl Equity Fund Vi Investors (ceridian) V, Llc director, 10 percent owner C/O THOMAS H LEE PARTNERS, L.P., 100 FEDERAL STREET, 35TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02110