Wirecard AG (Wirecard AG) Debt-to-EBITDA : 2.08 (As of Sep. 2019)

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What is Wirecard AG Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Wirecard AG's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $171 Mil. Wirecard AG's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $1,871 Mil. Wirecard AG's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was $984 Mil. Wirecard AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 was 2.08.

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

WRCDF's Debt-to-EBITDA is not ranked ^*
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.04
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Debt-to-EBITDA only.

Wirecard AG Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Wirecard AG Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Wirecard AG Annual Data

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2.65

2.68

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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.19	2.44	2.46	2.37	2.08

Competitive Comparison of Wirecard AG's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Wirecard 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.

Wirecard AG's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Wirecard AG's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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Wirecard AG Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Wirecard AG's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2018 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(152.332	+	1565.301)	/	641.98
	=	2.68

Wirecard AG's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2019 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(170.595	+	1871.476)	/	983.7
	=	2.08

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. 2019) EBITDA data.

Wirecard AG (OTCPK:WRCDF) 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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Wirecard AG (Wirecard AG) Business Description

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Wirecard AG is a Germany-based provider of software solutions to the financial services industry. The firm's operations are organized in three segments: Payment Processing and Risk Management, which offers electronic payment processing services; Acquiring and Issuing, which issues credit cards and statements for payments and transactions; and Call Center and Communication Services, which offers relationship management services to corporate customers. The firm has operations in Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region.