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PCT (PCTL) Debt-to-EBITDA : -3.04 (As of Sep. 2022)


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What is PCT Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

PCT's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $1.06 Mil. PCT's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $1.47 Mil. PCT's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was $-0.83 Mil. PCT's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 was -3.04.

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

PCTL's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 1.71
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

PCT Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

PCT Annual Data
Trend Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.48 -0.72 -0.18 -1.40 1.20

PCT Quarterly Data
Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22
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 8.66 -0.28 - 1.29 -3.04

Competitive Comparison of PCT's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, PCT'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.


PCT's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, PCT's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



PCT Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

PCT's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.742 + 1.507) / 1.877
=1.20

PCT's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(1.061 + 1.47) / -0.832
=-3.04

* 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. 2022) EBITDA data.


PCT  (OTCPK:PCTL) 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.


PCT Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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PCT (PCTL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
4235 Commerce Street, Little River, SC, USA, 29566
PCT Ltd is a technology licensing company specializing in environmentally safe solutions for global sustainability. The company provides innovative products and technologies for eliminating contamination from water supplies, industrial fluids, hard surfaces, food processing equipment, and medical devices. The company markets new products and technologies for the Healthcare, Agriculture, and Oil & Gas industries. It designs, develops, integrates, assembles and commercializes technologies, products and systems targeted at the prevention and treatment of infectious disease and crop infestation. Its products include The Annihilyzer System, Large Volume Systems, Small Volume Systems, The Survivalyte System, and others.
Executives
Jody Read Francis director, officer: Chief Operating Officer 9600 SW 67TH PATH, LAKE BUTLER FL 32054
Paul Branagan director
William E Prince director
Gary Grieco director, 10 percent owner, officer: President 10457 W. 84TH TERRACE, LENEXA KS 66214
Gregory W Albers director, officer: Secretary/Treasurer 10457 W. 84TH TERRACE, LENEXA KS 66214
John W Peters director, officer: Secretary/Treasurer 2157 S LINCOLN STREET, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84106

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