Shopify (Shopify) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.96 (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is Shopify Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

Shopify's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $17 Mil. Shopify's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,133 Mil. Shopify's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,196 Mil. Shopify's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.96.

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

SHOP' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -143.75 Med: -0.62 Max: 2.86
Current: -127.78

During the past 12 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Shopify was 2.86. The lowest was -143.75. And the median was -0.62.

SHOP's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
100% of 1598 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs SHOP: -127.78

Shopify Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

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

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Shopify Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

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Debt-to-EBITDA

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-2.52

2.86

0.37

-1.92

-143.75

Shopify Quarterly Data
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Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-2.21	-2.13	-1.02	2.08	0.96

Competitive Comparison of Shopify's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Software - Application subindustry, Shopify'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.

Shopify's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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

Shopify Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

Shopify'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
	=	(17	+	1133)	/	-8
	=	-143.75

Shopify'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
	=	(17	+	1133)	/	1196
	=	0.96

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.

Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) 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.

Shopify Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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Shopify (Shopify) Business Description

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Address

151 O'Connor Street, Ground Floor, Ottawa, ON, CAN, K2P2L8

Website

https://www.shopify.com

Shopify offers an e-commerce platform primarily to small and medium-size businesses. The firm has two segments. The subscription solutions segment allows Shopify merchants to conduct e-commerce on a variety of platforms, including the company's website, physical stores, pop-up stores, kiosks, social networks (Facebook), and Amazon. The merchant solutions segment offers add-on products for the platform that facilitate e-commerce and include Shopify Payments, Shopify Shipping, and Shopify Capital.