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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co (TPE:8131) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.18 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$43 Mil. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$469 Mil. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$2,866 Mil. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.18.

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 Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

TPE:8131' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0   Med: 0.14   Max: 0.29
Current: 0.27

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Formosa Advanced Technologies Co was 0.29. The lowest was 0.00. And the median was 0.14.

TPE:8131's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
77.08% of 698 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 1.545 vs TPE:8131: 0.27

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Formosa Advanced Technologies Co'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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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.17 0.15 0.14 0.15 0.29

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 0.23 0.25 0.39 0.41 0.18

Competitive Comparison of Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials subindustry, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co'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.


Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(42.412 + 480.137) / 1798.712
=0.29

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(43.209 + 469.257) / 2866.26
=0.18

* 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 (Mar. 2024) EBITDA data.


Formosa Advanced Technologies Co  (TPE:8131) 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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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co (TPE:8131) Business Description

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Address
No.329, Ho-Nan Street, Touliu, TWN, 640
Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Ltd is a professional manufacturer of DRAM assembly, testing and module Turn-Key service in Taiwan. Its operations include the packaging, testing, processing, and research and development of integrated chips. The group's business activity is operated in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. It provides services applied in thin small-outline packages (TSOPs), quad flat packages (QFPs), ball grid array (BGA) packages, chip probing (CP) testing, solid-state disk (SSD) testing, system-in-package (SIP) testing, embedded multimedia card (eMMC) testing, as well as cutting, grinding and testing of light-emitting diodes (LED) wafers, among others.

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