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Blue Star Foods (Blue Star Foods) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.41 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Blue Star Foods Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Blue Star Foods's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.63 Mil. Blue Star Foods's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.61 Mil. Blue Star Foods's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $-3.03 Mil. Blue Star Foods's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was -0.41.

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 Blue Star Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

BSFC' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.43   Med: -1.06   Max: -0.38
Current: -0.67

During the past 7 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Blue Star Foods was -0.38. The lowest was -3.43. And the median was -1.06.

BSFC's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1431 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.12 vs BSFC: -0.67

Blue Star Foods Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Blue Star Foods'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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Blue Star Foods Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Blue Star Foods Annual Data
Trend Oct17 Oct18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -3.43 -1.48 -2.15 -0.61 -0.38

Blue Star Foods 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 -0.87 -0.99 1.25 -0.74 -0.41

Competitive Comparison of Blue Star Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Blue Star Foods'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.


Blue Star Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Blue Star Foods's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Blue Star Foods Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Blue Star Foods'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
=(0.458 + 0.571) / -2.695
=-0.38

Blue Star Foods'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
=(0.634 + 0.612) / -3.028
=-0.41

* 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.


Blue Star Foods  (NAS:BSFC) 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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Blue Star Foods (Blue Star Foods) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
3000 NW,109th Avenue, Miami, FL, USA, 33172
Blue Star Foods Corp is an international seafood company based in Miami. It imports, packages, and sells refrigerated pasteurized crab meat, and other premium seafood products. The company derives revenue from importing blue and red swimming crab meat from Indonesia, Philippines and China and distributing it in the United States and Canada under several premium brand names such as Blue Star, Oceanica, Pacifika, Crab & Go, First Choice, Good Stuff and Coastal Pride Fresh. The Company's products are sold in the United States and Canada.
Executives
Nubar Herian director 1120 NW 165TH STREET, MIAMI FL 33169
Jeffrey J Guzy director 3130 19TH STREET, NORTH, ARLINGTON VA 22201
Trond K. Ringstad director 1511 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 788, SEATTLE WA 98101
John R Keeler director, 10 percent owner, officer: Executive Chairman 3000 NW 109TH AVE, MIAMI FL 33172
Juan Carlos Dalto director 3059 TOWNSGATE ROAD, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91361
Miozotis Ponce officer: Chief Operating Officer 3000 NW 109 AVENUE, MIAMI FL 33172
Silvia Sosa Alana officer: Chief Financial Officer 3000 NW 109 AVENUE, MIAMI FL 33172
Timothy Andrew Mclellan director 11016 MILL CREEK WAY, #2407, FORT MYERS FL 33913
Christopher Constable director, officer: CFO, Treasurer and Secretary 3000 NW 109TH AVE, MIAMI FL 33172
Carlos Faria director, 10 percent owner, officer: President and CEO 3000 NW 109TH AVE, MIAMI FL 33172
Laura E Anthony director, 10 percent owner, officer: Former CFO Director+10% Holder LAURA ANTHONY, 120 S. OLIVE AVE, WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401
Howard Gostfrand director, 10 percent owner, officer: Former CEO Director+10% Holder 625 N. FLAGLER DRIVE, SUITE 600, WEST PALM BEACH FL 33401