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First Class Metals (LSE:FCM) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.36 (As of Jun. 2023)


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What is First Class Metals Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

First Class Metals's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £0.50 Mil. First Class Metals's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £0.00 Mil. First Class Metals's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was £-1.38 Mil. First Class Metals's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was -0.36.

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 First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:FCM' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.45   Med: -0.32   Max: -0.32
Current: -0.45

During the past 2 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of First Class Metals was -0.32. The lowest was -0.45. And the median was -0.32.

LSE:FCM's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 528 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 1.98 vs LSE:FCM: -0.45

First Class Metals Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for First Class Metals'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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First Class Metals Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

First Class Metals Annual Data
Trend Dec21 Dec22
Debt-to-EBITDA
N/A -0.32

First Class Metals Semi-Annual Data
Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
Debt-to-EBITDA - -0.27 -0.36

Competitive Comparison of First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, First Class Metals'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.


First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



First Class Metals Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

First Class Metals's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.219 + 0) / -0.693
=-0.32

First Class Metals's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.499 + 0) / -1.382
=-0.36

* 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 (Jun. 2023) EBITDA data.


First Class Metals  (LSE:FCM) 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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First Class Metals (LSE:FCM) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Freckleton Street, Suite 16, Freckleton Street Business Centre, Blackburn, GBR, BB2 2AL
First Class Metals PLC is a minerals exploration company. It is focused on providing and developing the potential of flagship property North Hemlo which includes the Pickle Lake Palladium One JV area as well as systematic exploration of the Esa, Sugar Cube, McKellar, Magical, Enable and Coco East projects, in the Hemlo - Harte gold mines region in the Western portion of the Wawa-Abitibi Gold Belt of Ontario, Canada.

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