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Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.95 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Lok'n Store Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Lok'n Store Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was £0.99 Mil. Lok'n Store Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was £56.82 Mil. Lok'n Store Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was £14.63 Mil. Lok'n Store Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.95.

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

LSE:LOK' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.58   Med: 5.79   Max: 10.18
Current: 4.16

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Lok'n Store Group was 10.18. The lowest was 3.58. And the median was 5.79.

LSE:LOK's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
60.78% of 1262 companies
in the Real Estate industry
Industry Median: 5.775 vs LSE:LOK: 4.16

Lok'n Store Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Lok'n Store 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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Lok'n Store Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Lok'n Store Group Annual Data
Trend Jul14 Jul15 Jul16 Jul17 Jul18 Jul19 Jul20 Jul21 Jul22 Jul23
Debt-to-EBITDA
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Lok'n Store Group Semi-Annual Data
Jul14 Jan15 Jul15 Jan16 Jul16 Jan17 Jul17 Jan18 Jul18 Jan19 Jul19 Jan20 Jul20 Jan21 Jul21 Jan22 Jul22 Jan23 Jul23 Jan24
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Competitive Comparison of Lok'n Store Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Real Estate Services subindustry, Lok'n Store 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.


Lok'n Store Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Real Estate Industry

For the Real Estate industry and Real Estate sector, Lok'n Store Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Lok'n Store Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Lok'n Store Group's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.826 + 67.876) / 14.506
=4.74

Lok'n Store Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(0.992 + 56.823) / 14.632
=3.95

* 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 (Jan. 2024) EBITDA data.


Lok'n Store Group  (LSE:LOK) 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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Lok'n Store Group (LSE:LOK) Business Description

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Address
112 Hawley Lane, Farnborough, Hampshire, GBR, GU14 8JE
Lok'n Store Group PLC operates in the real estate industry based in the United Kingdom. Its business involves buying or leasing warehouses or industrial buildings and letting them out as self-storage units to its customers. Operating through the Self-Storage segments, the company caters to both households and business customers. Its self-storage segment accounts for the bulk of its operations with the provision of storage rooms, student storage, pallet storage, warehouse space, self-storage archiving, flexible office space, and multi-site business storage accounts.

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