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Television Broadcasts (Television Broadcasts) EBITDA per Share : $-0.09 (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Television Broadcasts EBITDA per Share?

Television Broadcasts's EBITDA per Share for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.03. Its EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.09.

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The historical rank and industry rank for Television Broadcasts's EBITDA per Share or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Television Broadcasts was 252.00% per year. The lowest was -61.00% per year. And the median was -3.90% per year.

TVBCF's 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 7.4
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year EBITDA Growth Rate only.

Television Broadcasts's EBITDA for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-15.1 Mil.

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During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Television Broadcasts was 31.80% per year. The lowest was -45.40% per year. And the median was 2.00% per year.


Television Broadcasts EBITDA per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Television Broadcasts's EBITDA per Share 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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Television Broadcasts EBITDA per Share Chart

Television Broadcasts Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
EBITDA per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.07 0.04 -0.07 -0.13 -0.09

Television Broadcasts Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
EBITDA per Share 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 -0.05 -0.01 -0.12 -0.05 -0.03

Television Broadcasts EBITDA per Share Calculation

EBITDA per Share is the amount of Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) per outstanding share of the company's stock.

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Television Broadcasts's EBITDA per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

EBITDA per Share(A: Dec. 2023 )
=EBITDA/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=-38.21/438.122
=-0.09

Television Broadcasts's EBITDA per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

EBITDA per Share(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=EBITDA/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=-15.068/438.135
=-0.03

EBITDA per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.09

* 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.


Television Broadcasts  (OTCPK:TVBCF) EBITDA per Share Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals EBIT. EBIT is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost, it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies.


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Television Broadcasts (Television Broadcasts) Business Description

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Address
TVB City, 77 Chun Choi Street, Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG
Television Broadcasts Ltd is a Hong Kong-based company whose activities involve terrestrial television broadcasting, together with programme production and other television-related activities. Its operating segments include Hong Kong TV broadcasting; OTT Streaming; e-Commerce business; Mainland China operations and International operations. The company derives a majority of revenue from the Hong Kong TV broadcasting segment involving the broadcasting of television programmes, commercials on terrestrial TV platforms, production of programmes, online social media platform, music entertainment, event and digital marketing. The group derives revenue from Hong Kong and other countries, of which prime revenue is derived from Hong Kong.

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