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Village Super Market (Village Super Market) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.03 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Village Super Market Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Village Super Market's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $32.31 Mil. Village Super Market's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $345.19 Mil. Village Super Market's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was $124.72 Mil. Village Super Market's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.03.

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 Village Super Market's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

VLGEB' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.63   Med: 0.82   Max: 6.4
Current: 3.23

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Village Super Market was 6.40. The lowest was 0.63. And the median was 0.82.

VLGEB's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
61.81% of 254 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 2.675 vs VLGEB: 3.23

Village Super Market Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Village Super Market'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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Village Super Market Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Village Super Market Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.73 6.40 5.84 5.20 3.49

Village Super Market Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 3.62 3.80 3.01 3.58 3.03

Competitive Comparison of Village Super Market's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Village Super Market'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.


Village Super Market's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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



Village Super Market Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Village Super Market's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(31.163 + 361.418) / 112.656
=3.48

Village Super Market's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(32.313 + 345.193) / 124.72
=3.03

* 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 (Jan. 2024) EBITDA data.


Village Super Market  (GREY:VLGEB) 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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Village Super Market (Village Super Market) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
733 Mountain Avenue, Springfield, NJ, USA, 07081
Village Super Market Inc operates a chain of ShopRite supermarkets, a few of which are in northern New Jersey, southern New Jersey, Maryland, and in northeastern Pennsylvania. The company is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation (Wakefern), a retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite name. It consists of one operating segment, the retail sale of food and nonfood products.

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