Dawood Hercules (KAR:DAWH) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.29 (As of Mar. 2024)

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What is Dawood Hercules Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Dawood Hercules's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was ₨29,482 Mil. Dawood Hercules's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was ₨117,035 Mil. Dawood Hercules's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was ₨113,582 Mil. Dawood Hercules's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.29.

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 Dawood Hercules's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

KAR:DAWH' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.89 Med: 2.65 Max: 3.35
Current: 1.11

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Dawood Hercules was 3.35. The lowest was 0.89. And the median was 2.65.

KAR:DAWH's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
65.36% of 179 companies
in the Agriculture industry
Industry Median: 2 vs KAR:DAWH: 1.11

Dawood Hercules Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Dawood Hercules's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Dawood Hercules Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Dawood Hercules Annual Data

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Dec23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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3.35

2.79

2.63

2.82

2.24

Dawood Hercules 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															2.68	1.87	1.49	8.65	1.29

Competitive Comparison of Dawood Hercules's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Agricultural Inputs subindustry, Dawood Hercules'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.

Dawood Hercules's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Agriculture Industry

For the Agriculture industry and Basic Materials sector, Dawood Hercules's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Dawood Hercules Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Dawood Hercules'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
	=	(70857.158	+	228857.203)	/	133572.31
	=	2.24

Dawood Hercules'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
	=	(29481.855	+	117035.014)	/	113582.268
	=	1.29

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.

Dawood Hercules (KAR:DAWH) 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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Dawood Hercules (KAR:DAWH) Business Description

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M.T. Khan Road, Dawood Centre, Karachi, SD, PAK, 75530

Website

https://www.dawoodhercules.com

Dawood Hercules Corp Ltd is in the business of energy, agriculture, and food. It manages investments in its subsidiaries and associated companies. The company's segments are Fertilizer, Polymer, Terminal, Power and Mining, Connectivity and Telcom and other Operating segments. The segment's activities include manufacturing, purchasing, marketing and selling fertilizers, Poly Vinyl Chloride, PVC compounds, Caustic soda and related chemicals, dairy products beverages, ice cream, frozen desserts and other products, promotion of its own brands such as Engro, Zarkhez, Zingro, EngroDAP and Envy, import and sale phosphate products, power generation, distribution transmission and sale of electricity, operating a terminal and management of investments.

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