SU Group Holdings (SU Group Holdings) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.33 (As of Sep. 2023)

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What is SU Group Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

SU Group Holdings's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.47 Mil. SU Group Holdings's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.01 Mil. SU Group Holdings's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.36 Mil. SU Group Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 1.33.

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 SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

SUGP' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.22 Med: 0.25 Max: 0.25
Current: 0.25

During the past 3 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of SU Group Holdings was 0.25. The lowest was 0.22. And the median was 0.25.

SUGP's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
85.54% of 830 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 1.87 vs SUGP: 0.25

SU Group Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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SU Group Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

SU Group Holdings Annual Data

Trend

Sep21

Sep22

Sep23

Debt-to-EBITDA

0.22

0.25

SU Group Holdings Semi-Annual Data
	Sep21	Mar22	Sep22	Mar23	Sep23
Debt-to-EBITDA	N/A	-	0.23	0.16	1.33

Competitive Comparison of SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, SU Group Holdings'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.

SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.

SU Group Holdings Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

SU Group Holdings's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.474	+	0.008)	/	1.902
	=	0.25

SU Group Holdings's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.474	+	0.008)	/	0.362
	=	1.33

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 (Sep. 2023) EBITDA data.

SU Group Holdings (NAS:SUGP) 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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SU Group Holdings (SU Group Holdings) Business Description

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Address

31 Hung To Road, Unit 01 – 03, 3/F, Billion Trade Centre, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG

Website

https://www.sugroup.com.hk

SU Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries is an integrated security-related services company that primarily provides security-related engineering services, and to a lesser extent, security guarding and screening services and related vocational training services, in Hong Kong.

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