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Mersana Therapeutics (Mersana Therapeutics) Debt-to-EBITDA

: -0.47 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Mersana Therapeutics's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $5.34 Mil. Mersana Therapeutics's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $28.30 Mil. Mersana Therapeutics's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-72.20 Mil. Mersana Therapeutics's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -0.47.

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

MRSN' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.29   Med: -0.2   Max: -0.18
Current: -0.2

During the past 9 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Mersana Therapeutics was -0.18. The lowest was -0.29. And the median was -0.20.

MRSN's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 277 companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 1.39 vs MRSN: -0.20

Mersana Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Mersana 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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Mersana Therapeutics Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.29 -0.19 -0.23 -0.18 -0.20

Mersana Therapeutics 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 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -0.21 -0.16 -0.17 -0.21 -0.47

Competitive Comparison

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Mersana 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.


Mersana Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution

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

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



Mersana Therapeutics Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Mersana 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
=(5.335 + 28.297) / -166.08
=-0.20

Mersana 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
=(5.335 + 28.297) / -72.196
=-0.47

* 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.


Mersana Therapeutics  (NAS:MRSN) 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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Mersana Therapeutics (Mersana Therapeutics) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
840 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139
Mersana Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its differentiated and proprietary ADC platforms to develop targeted drugs with increased tolerability and expanded opportunities to deliver meaningful clinical benefits to patients. The Company's early stage programs include XMT-1660, a Dolasynthen ADC targeting B7-H4, as well as XMT-2056, a STING agonist ADC developed using the Company's Immunosynthen platform and targeting a novel epitope of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. The Company also has two earlier stage preclinical candidates, XMT-2068 and XMT-2175, both of which leverage the Company's Immunosynthen platform and target tumor-associated antigens.
Executives
Anna Protopapas director, officer: President and CEO MILLENNIUM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 40 LANDSDOWNE STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Mohan Bala officer: SVP, Chief Development Officer C/O MERSANA THERAPEUTICS, INC., 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Tushar Misra officer: Chief Manufacturing Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Brian Deschuytner officer: Sr. VP, Finance & Product stgy 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 01776
Ashish Mandelia officer: VP, Controller 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Timothy B Lowinger officer: Chief Scientific Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Alejandra Carvajal officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O CERULEAN PHARMA INC., 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, 5TH FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Ecor1 Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 357 TEHAMA STREET #3, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Arvin Yang officer: Chief Medical Officer 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Hack Andrew A. F. director 300 THIRD STREET, FIRST FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michael J. Kaufman officer: Sr VP Chmistry, Man & Control 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Allene M. Diaz director C/O ALLENA PHARMACEUTIALS, INC., ONEW NEWTON EXECUTIVE PARK SUITE 202, NEWTON MA 02462
Eva M. Jack officer: CBO, Treasurer & Secretary 840 MEMORIAL DRIVE, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Lawrence M Alleva director 1000 WINTER STREET, SUITE 3300, WALTHAM MA 02451
Scott D Sandell 10 percent owner