TSL (XZIM:TSL.ZW) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.41 (As of Oct. 2023)

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What is TSL Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

TSL's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was ZWL49,598 Mil. TSL's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was ZWL16,393 Mil. TSL's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was ZWL160,301 Mil. TSL's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 0.41.

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

XZIM:TSL.ZW' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.1 Med: 0.17 Max: 0.75
Current: 0.75

During the past 9 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of TSL was 0.75. The lowest was 0.10. And the median was 0.17.

XZIM:TSL.ZW's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
79.86% of 417 companies
in the Conglomerates industry
Industry Median: 3.18 vs XZIM:TSL.ZW: 0.75

TSL Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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TSL Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

TSL Annual Data

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Oct09

Oct11

Oct12

Oct18

Oct19

Oct20

Oct21

Oct22

Oct23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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0.11

0.28

0.27

0.17

0.75

TSL Semi-Annual Data
	Oct09	Apr11	Oct11	Apr12	Oct12	Oct18	Apr19	Oct19	Apr20	Oct20	Apr21	Oct21	Apr22	Oct22	Apr23	Oct23
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial											0.19	0.11	0.09	0.43	0.41

Competitive Comparison of TSL's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Conglomerates subindustry, TSL'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.

TSL's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, TSL's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

TSL Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

TSL's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(49598.32	+	16392.636)	/	88028.935
	=	0.75

TSL's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(49598.32	+	16392.636)	/	160301.47
	=	0.41

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 (Oct. 2023) EBITDA data.

TSL (XZIM:TSL.ZW) 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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TSL (XZIM:TSL.ZW) Business Description

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28 Simon Mazorodze Road, Southerton, Harare, ZWE

Website

https://www.tsl.co.zw

TSL Ltd provides agricultural inputs (fertilizer, chemicals, and packaging), farming, end-to-end logistics solutions, commodity marketing platforms, and industrial real estate. It has four reportable segments namely, the Logistics cluster offers end-to-end logistics services including warehousing and storage facilities, inland terminal and port services, transport, vehicle rental, distribution, and customs clearing. The Agriculture cluster is involved in the auctioning, packaging, production, and retailing of agricultural commodities. The Real estate cluster is involved in the rental and development of industrial properties. The Services cluster provides group activities and shared services in finance and treasury, human resources, procurement, and information technology.

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