Colabor Group (Colabor Group) Debt-to-EBITDA : 4.13 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Colabor Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Colabor Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $9.1 Mil. Colabor Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $119.5 Mil. Colabor Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $31.1 Mil. Colabor Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.13.

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

COLFF' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -134.33 Med: 3.19 Max: 9.87
Current: 4.79

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Colabor Group was 9.87. The lowest was -134.33. And the median was 3.19.

COLFF's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
79.13% of 254 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.645 vs COLFF: 4.79

Colabor Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Colabor Group's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Colabor Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Colabor Group Annual Data

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2.87

3.87

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3.37

4.79

Colabor Group Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.49	4.36	2.52	2.20	4.13

Competitive Comparison of Colabor Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Food Distribution subindustry, Colabor Group'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.

Colabor Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Colabor Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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Colabor Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Colabor Group'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
	=	(9.097	+	119.45)	/	26.822
	=	4.79

Colabor Group'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
	=	(9.097	+	119.45)	/	31.14
	=	4.13

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.

Colabor Group (OTCPK:COLFF) 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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Colabor Group (Colabor Group) Business Description

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GCL:Canada

Address

1620 De Montarville Boulevard, Boucherville, QC, CAN, J4B 8P4

Website

http://www.colabor.com

Colabor Group Inc is a wholesaler and distributor of food and related products in Canada. The company operates in two segments Distribution and the Wholesale segment. Its Distribution segment operations include the distribution of food products and related products in hotels, restaurants, and institutions (HRI) and the retail market. Its products such as meat, fish, and seafood (Specialty Distribution), as well as general food-related products (Broadline Distribution), and the Wholesale segment's operations, include the sale of general food-related products to distributors from its distribution center in Boucherville. The company generates maximum revenue from the Distribution segment.