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Samsara (Samsara) Debt-to-EBITDA

: -0.50 (As of Jan. 2024)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Samsara's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $20.7 Mil. Samsara's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $78.8 Mil. Samsara's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $-198.6 Mil. Samsara's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was -0.50.

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

IOT' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.87   Med: -0.5   Max: -0.42
Current: -0.42

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Samsara was -0.42. The lowest was -0.87. And the median was -0.50.

IOT's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1586 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.03 vs IOT: -0.42

Samsara Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Samsara'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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Samsara Annual Data
Trend Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Debt-to-EBITDA
-0.83 -0.87 -0.42 -0.50 -0.42

Samsara Quarterly Data
Jan20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 -0.54 -0.36 -0.40 -0.56 -0.50

Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Samsara'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.


Samsara Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Samsara Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Samsara's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(20.661 + 78.83) / -234.394
=-0.42

Samsara's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(20.661 + 78.83) / -198.6
=-0.50

* 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 (Jan. 2024) EBITDA data.


Samsara  (NYSE:IOT) 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.


Samsara Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Samsara (Samsara) Business Description

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Address
1 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94107
Samsara Inc provides an end-to-end solution for operations: The solution connects physical operations data to the Connected Operations Cloud, which consists of the Data Platform and Application. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.
Executives
Sanjit Biswas director, 10 percent owner, officer: Chief Executive Officer 350 RHODE ISLAND STREET, 4TH FLOOR, SOUTH BUILDING, SAN FRANSCISO CA 94103
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