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Puration (Puration) Debt-to-EBITDA

: 0.00 (As of Sep. 2007)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Puration's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 was $0.00 Mil. Puration's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 was $0.00 Mil. Puration's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 was $-1.01 Mil. Puration's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 was 0.00.

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

PURA'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.

Puration Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Puration'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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Puration Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06
Debt-to-EBITDA
- -0.04 -0.61

Puration Quarterly Data
Sep03 Jun04 Sep04 Dec04 Mar05 Jun05 Sep05 Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07
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 -0.39 -0.79 -0.08 -0.89 -

Competitive Comparison

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Puration'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.


Puration Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Puration Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Puration's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2006 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(1 + 0) / -1.649
=-0.61

Puration's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0 + 0) / -1.008
=0.00

* 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. 2007) EBITDA data.


Puration  (OTCPK:PURA) 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.


Puration Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Puration (Puration) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1584 County Road 613, Farmersville, TX, USA, 75442
Puration Inc is engaged in the business of researching, designing, developing, producing, marketing and distributing products and systems to improve the quality of the water used daily by people around the world. The company designs and produces personal use water filter bottles and other containers and also has developed its proprietary technology for water filtration and purification. It derives its revenue from the selling of water filtration products.
Executives
Robert Howard Nelson officer: Chief Financial Officer 1613 EAST 15TH STREET, TULSA OK 74120