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Barry Callebaut AG (Barry Callebaut AG) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.81 (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Barry Callebaut AG Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Barry Callebaut AG's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $1,178 Mil. Barry Callebaut AG's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $2,317 Mil. Barry Callebaut AG's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $918 Mil. Barry Callebaut AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 3.81.

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 Barry Callebaut AG's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

BYCBF' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.01   Med: 2.86   Max: 3.89
Current: 3.71

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Barry Callebaut AG was 3.89. The lowest was 2.01. And the median was 2.86.

BYCBF's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
67.23% of 1428 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.145 vs BYCBF: 3.71

Barry Callebaut AG Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Barry Callebaut AG'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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Barry Callebaut AG Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Barry Callebaut AG Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.42 3.89 3.03 2.70 2.01

Barry Callebaut AG Semi-Annual Data
Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.58 3.24 2.34 2.12 3.81

Competitive Comparison of Barry Callebaut AG's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Confectioners subindustry, Barry Callebaut AG'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.


Barry Callebaut AG's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Barry Callebaut AG's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Barry Callebaut AG Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Barry Callebaut AG's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(752.556 + 1293.456) / 1020.298
=2.01

Barry Callebaut AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(1178.099 + 2316.767) / 917.864
=3.81

* 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 two times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) EBITDA data.


Barry Callebaut AG  (OTCPK:BYCBF) 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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Barry Callebaut AG (Barry Callebaut AG) Business Description

Address
Hardturmstrasse 181, Zurich, CHE, 8005
Barry Callebaut is a significant manufacturer and supplier of cocoa and chocolate ingredients, employing over 13,000 people. Customers include food and beverage makers as well as craftspeople, chocolatiers, pastry chefs, and bakers who utilize chocolate professionally. Barry Callebaut is vertically integrated from raw material (cocoa bean) procurement through chocolate manufacture, while not owning any cocoa farms. The firm produces around 40% of the world's industrial chocolate (open market), and its products are used in approximately 20% of the world's chocolate and cocoa goods. Barry Callebaut's sustainability endeavors are reflected in the fact that the company's Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating is one of the lowest in its subcategory and first among its peers.

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