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United Microelectronics (United Microelectronics) Debt-to-EBITDA

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

United Microelectronics's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $449 Mil. United Microelectronics's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,604 Mil. United Microelectronics's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,300 Mil. United Microelectronics's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.62.

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

UMC' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.29   Med: 0.81   Max: 1.41
Current: 0.57

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of United Microelectronics was 1.41. The lowest was 0.29. And the median was 0.81.

UMC's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
68.17% of 710 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 1.59 vs UMC: 0.57

United Microelectronics Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for United Microelectronics'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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United Microelectronics Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.15 0.56 0.44 0.29 0.57

United Microelectronics 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 0.29 0.37 0.36 0.73 0.62

Competitive Comparison

For the Semiconductors subindustry, United Microelectronics'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.


United Microelectronics Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



United Microelectronics Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

United Microelectronics'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
=(449.397 + 1603.595) / 3611.666
=0.57

United Microelectronics'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
=(449.397 + 1603.595) / 3300.244
=0.62

* 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.


United Microelectronics  (NYSE:UMC) 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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United Microelectronics (United Microelectronics) Business Description

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Address
No. 3, Li-Hsin 2nd Road, Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu, TWN
Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2022 after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.

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