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Design Therapeutics (Design Therapeutics) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.05 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Design Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Design Therapeutics's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.72 Mil. Design Therapeutics's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $2.33 Mil. Design Therapeutics's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-59.93 Mil. Design Therapeutics's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.05.

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

DSGN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.36   Med: -0.08   Max: -0.04
Current: -0.04

During the past 5 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Design Therapeutics was -0.04. The lowest was -0.36. And the median was -0.08.

DSGN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 277 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 1.36 vs DSGN: -0.04

Design Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Design Therapeutics'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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Design Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Design Therapeutics Annual Data
Trend Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
-0.36 - -0.10 -0.06 -0.04

Design Therapeutics Quarterly Data
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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.05 -0.04 -0.04 -0.04 -0.05

Competitive Comparison of Design Therapeutics's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Design Therapeutics'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.


Design Therapeutics's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Design Therapeutics's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Design Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Design Therapeutics'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
=(0.716 + 2.334) / -77.653
=-0.04

Design Therapeutics'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
=(0.716 + 2.334) / -59.932
=-0.05

* 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 four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Design Therapeutics  (NAS:DSGN) 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.


Design Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Design Therapeutics (Design Therapeutics) Business Description

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Address
6005 Hidden Valley Road, Suite 110, Carlsbad, CA, USA, 92011
Design Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development of GeneTACTM molecules, which are a novel class of small-molecule gene-targeted chimera therapeutic candidates designed to be disease-modifying by addressing the underlying cause of diseases caused by inherited nucleotide repeat expansion mutations.
Executives
Rodney W Lappe director C/O MIRATI THERAPEUTICS INC., 4660 LA JOLLA VILLAGE DRIVE, SUITE 500, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Deepa Prasad director C/O VTV THERAPEUTICS INC., 3980 PREMIER DRIVE, SUITE 310, HIGH POINT NC 27265
Arsani William director C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Joao Md Siffert director, officer: President and CEO 20 ENTERPRISE, SUITE 200, ALISO VIEJO CA 92656
Simeon George director, 10 percent owner 161 WASHINGTON STREET, SUITE 500, CONSHOHOCKEN PA 19428
Sr One Capital Fund I Aggregator Lp 10 percent owner C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Stella Xu director, 10 percent owner C/O ARMO BIOSCIENCES, INC., 575 CHESAPEAKE DRIVE, REDWOOD CITY CA 94063
Julie Burgess officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Dawn Giangiulio officer: Principal Accounting Officer C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Heather Behanna director C/O ENTASIS THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS INC., 35 GATEHOUSE DRIVE, WALTHAM MA 02451
Cormorant Asset Management, Lp 10 percent owner 200 CLARENDON STREET, 52ND FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Pratik Shah director, officer: Executive Chairperson 3366 N. TORREY PINES COURT, SUITE 220, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Sean Jeffries officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Justin Thacker officer: Vice President, Finance C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011
Aseem Z. Ansari 10 percent owner C/O DESIGN THERAPEUTICS, INC., 6005 HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, SUITE 110, CARLSBAD CA 92011

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