Loop Industries (Loop Industries) Debt-to-EBITDA : -0.20 (As of Nov. 2023)

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What is Loop Industries Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Loop Industries's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $0.50 Mil. Loop Industries's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $2.81 Mil. Loop Industries's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was $-16.28 Mil. Loop Industries's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 was -0.20.

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

LOOP' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.4 Med: -0.17 Max: -0.07
Current: -0.34

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Loop Industries was -0.07. The lowest was -0.40. And the median was -0.17.

LOOP's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1217 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 2.25 vs LOOP: -0.34

Loop Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Loop Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Loop Industries Annual Data

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Feb23

Debt-to-EBITDA

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-0.40

-0.20

-0.07

-0.08

-0.16

Loop Industries Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-1.00	0.15	-0.12	-0.18	-0.20

Competitive Comparison of Loop Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Loop Industries'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.

Loop Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Loop Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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

Loop Industries Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Loop Industries's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Feb. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.062	+	3.24)	/	-20.595
	=	-0.16

Loop Industries's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Nov. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(0.501	+	2.814)	/	-16.28
	=	-0.20

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 (Nov. 2023) EBITDA data.

Loop Industries (NAS:LOOP) 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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Loop Industries (Loop Industries) Business Description

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Address

480 Fernand-Poitras, Terrebonne, QC, CAN, J6Y 1Y4

Website

http://www.loopindustries.com

Loop Industries Inc is a technology and licensing company whose mission is to accelerate the world's shift toward sustainable plastic and away from dependence on fossil fuels. The company owns patented and proprietary technology that depolymerizes no and low value waste PET plastic and polyester fiber, including plastic bottles and packaging, carpet and polyester textile of any color, transparency or condition and even ocean plastics that have been degraded by the sun and salt, to its base building blocks (monomers). Its monomers are filtered, purified and repolymerized to create virgin-quality Loop branded PET plastic resin and polyester fiber suitable for use in food-grade packaging to be sold to consumer goods companies to help them meet their sustainability objectives.

Executives

Fady Mansour	officer: Chief Financial Officer	480 FERNAND POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Nicolas Lafond	officer: Interim CFO	480 FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Yves Perron	officer: VP, Engineering & Construction	480 FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Stephen Champagne	officer: Chief Technology Officer	480, RUE FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Jonghyuk Lee	director	C/O SK GLOBAL CHEMICAL CO., LTD., 26, JONG-RO, JONGNO-GU, SEOUL M5 03188
Louise S Sams	director	C/O COSTAR GROUP, INC., 1331 L STREET NW, WASHINGTON DC 20005
Thomas Andrew Hickey	officer: CFO	480, RUE FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Daniel Solomita	director, 10 percent owner, officer: President, Secretary & Treas.	1999 AVENUE OF THE STARS, SUITE 2520, LOS ANGELES CA 90067
Nelson Gentiletti	officer: COO and CFO	480 FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Jay Howard Stubina	director	480 FERNAND POITRAS, TERREBONE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Laurence G. Sellyn	director	480 FERNAND POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Sheila Morin	officer: CMO	480, RUE FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4
Northern Private Capital Fund I Non-resident Limited Partnership	10 percent owner	135 YORKVILLE AVENUE, 9TH FLOOR, TORONTO Z4 A6 M5R 0C7
Northern Private Capital Fund I Limited Partnership	10 percent owner	135 YORKVILLE AVENUE, 9TH FLOOR, TORONTO A6 M5R 0C7
Peter Kezios	director	480, RUE FERNAND-POITRAS, TERREBONNE A8 J6Y 1Y4