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Carr's Group (LSE:CARR) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.54 (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Carr's Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Carr's Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was £10.2 Mil. Carr's Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was £10.0 Mil. Carr's Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was £13.1 Mil. Carr's Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 1.54.

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

LSE:CARR' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.8   Med: 2.49   Max: 3.68
Current: 3.1

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Carr's Group was 3.68. The lowest was 1.80. And the median was 2.49.

LSE:CARR's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
60.78% of 1433 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.12 vs LSE:CARR: 3.10

Carr's Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Carr's Group'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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Carr's Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Carr's Group Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.78 2.39 3.68 3.23 3.13

Carr's Group Semi-Annual Data
Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
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 3.46 7.33 1.33 -262.68 1.54

Competitive Comparison of Carr's Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Carr's Group'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.


Carr's Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Carr's Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Carr's Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Carr's Group's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(14.978 + 10.765) / 8.229
=3.13

Carr's Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(10.189 + 9.979) / 13.122
=1.54

* 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 two times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) EBITDA data.


Carr's Group  (LSE:CARR) 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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Carr's Group (LSE:CARR) Business Description

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Address
Old Croft, Stanwix, Carlisle, Cumbria, GBR, CA3 9BA
Carr's Group PLC is a British farm supplies company. The company operates through two segments: Speciality Agriculture and Engineering. The Speciality Agriculture segment derives its revenue from the sale of animal feed blocks and animal health products. The Engineering segment derives its revenue from the provision of engineering services and the design and manufacture of bespoke equipment for use in the nuclear, naval defence, oil and gas, and petrochemical industries and the products include manipulators, robotics, specialist fabrication and precision machining. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the Speciality Agriculture segment.