NAVER (XKRX:035420) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.99 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is NAVER Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

NAVER's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ₩1,010,654 Mil. NAVER's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ₩3,168,229 Mil. NAVER's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was ₩2,100,578 Mil. NAVER's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.99.

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

XKRX:035420' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.29 Med: 0.76 Max: 2.6
Current: 2.6

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of NAVER was 2.60. The lowest was 0.29. And the median was 0.76.

XKRX:035420's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
74.82% of 278 companies
in the Interactive Media industry
Industry Median: 0.805 vs XKRX:035420: 2.60

NAVER Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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NAVER Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

NAVER Annual Data

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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1.10

0.41

1.52

2.45

1.91

NAVER Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															5.60	3.79	3.15	3.05	1.99

Competitive Comparison of NAVER's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Internet Content & Information subindustry, NAVER'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.

NAVER's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Interactive Media Industry

For the Interactive Media industry and Communication Services sector, NAVER's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

NAVER Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

NAVER'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
	=	(1010654.442	+	3168229.065)	/	2190813.231
	=	1.91

NAVER's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter 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
	=	(1010654.442	+	3168229.065)	/	2100578.412
	=	1.99

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 (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.

NAVER (XKRX:035420) 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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NAVER (XKRX:035420) Business Description

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6, Buljeong-ro, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Bundang-gu, KOR

Website

http://www.navercorp.com

Naver has been the leading search portal in South Korea for many years. The company has also been evolving into an internet platform providing a variety of internet services, such as news, dictionary, maps, digital comic content, social networking, e-commerce, videos, fintech services based on online payments, and Cloud services. Naver was also the incubator of Line, the leading mobile messaging app in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia, which merged with Z Holdings (Yahoo Japan), with Naver now owning 32.5% of the merged entity. Snow, the Snapchat-like mobile app launched in 2015, has also been well received in South Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries.

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