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Cision (Cision) Debt-to-EBITDA : 5.58 (As of Sep. 2019)


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What is Cision Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Cision's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $28.0 Mil. Cision's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $1,321.4 Mil. Cision's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $241.7 Mil. Cision's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was 5.58.

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

CISN's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.04
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Cision Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

Cision Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18
Debt-to-EBITDA
N/A -0.34 12.43 6.28

Cision Quarterly Data
Jul15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19
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 6.10 8.23 4.92 7.79 5.58

Competitive Comparison of Cision's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Cision'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.


Cision's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Cision Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Cision's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2018 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(13.21 + 1205.76) / 193.977
=6.28

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

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(28.02 + 1321.44) / 241.68
=5.58

* 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 (Sep. 2019) EBITDA data.


Cision  (NYSE:CISN) 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.


Cision Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Cision (Cision) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
130 East Randolph Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL, USA, 60601
Cision Ltd is a media communication technology and analytics company. It has created Cision Communications Cloud, an earned media cloud-based platform. Its solutions also include PR Newswire, Gorkana, PRWeb, Help a Reporter Out (HARO) and iContact.
Executives
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Mark Ein director
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