Sears Holdings (Sears Holdings) Debt-to-EBITDA : -1.26 (As of Oct. 2018)

Sears Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Sears Holdings Annual Data
	Trend	Jan09	Jan10	Jan11	Jan12	Jan13	Jan14	Jan15	Jan16	Jan17	Jan18
Debt-to-EBITDA		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-137.07	-4.44	-4.37	-2.57	-17.31

Sears Holdings Quarterly Data
	Apr14	Jul14	Oct14	Jan15	Apr15	Jul15	Oct15	Jan16	Apr16	Jul16	Oct16	Jan17	Apr17	Jul17	Oct17	Jan18	Apr18	Jul18	Oct18	Oct19
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-3.92	-7.59	-4.85	-1.26	N/A

Competitive Comparison of Sears Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Department Stores subindustry, Sears Holdings'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.

Sears Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sears Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Sears Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Sears Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2018 is calculated as

Sears Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2018 is calculated as

* 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 (Oct. 2018) EBITDA data.

Sears Holdings  (OTCPK:SHLDQ) 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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