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Fair Isaac (Fair Isaac) Debt-to-EBITDA : 3.16 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Fair Isaac Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Fair Isaac's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $169 Mil. Fair Isaac's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,821 Mil. Fair Isaac's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $630 Mil. Fair Isaac's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.16.

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

FICO' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.48   Med: 2.84   Max: 3.53
Current: 2.94

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Fair Isaac was 3.53. The lowest was 2.48. And the median was 2.84.

FICO's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
74.16% of 1598 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs FICO: 2.94

Fair Isaac Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Fair Isaac'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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Fair Isaac Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Fair Isaac Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.87 2.75 2.48 3.41 2.87

Fair Isaac 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 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 3.40 2.98 2.66 2.83 3.16

Competitive Comparison of Fair Isaac's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Fair Isaac'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.


Fair Isaac's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Fair Isaac's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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



Fair Isaac Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Fair Isaac's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(66.336 + 1835.561) / 663.808
=2.87

Fair Isaac'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
=(168.641 + 1820.554) / 630.304
=3.16

* 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.


Fair Isaac  (NYSE:FICO) 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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Fair Isaac (Fair Isaac) Business Description

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Address
5 West Mendenhall, Suite 105, Bozeman, MT, USA, 59715
Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac Corporation is a leading applied analytics company. Fair Isaac is primarily known for its FICO credit scores, which is a widely used industry benchmark to determine the creditworthiness of an individual consumer. The firm's credit scores business accounts for most of the firm's profits and consists of business-to-business and business-to-consumer offerings. In addition to scores, Fair Isaac also sells software primarily to financial institutions for areas such as analytics, decision-making, customer workflows, and fraud.
Executives
Steven P. Weber officer: Interim Chief Financial Ofc. 5 WEST MENDENHALL, SUITE 105, BOZEMAN MT 59715
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