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CGI (TSX:GIB.A) Debt-to-EBITDA : 1.10 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is CGI Debt-to-EBITDA?

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

CGI's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was C$688 Mil. CGI's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was C$2,313 Mil. CGI's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was C$2,730 Mil. CGI's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.10.

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

TSX:GIB.A' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.92   Med: 1.24   Max: 2.04
Current: 1.06

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of CGI was 2.04. The lowest was 0.92. And the median was 1.24.

TSX:GIB.A's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
50.34% of 1601 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.04 vs TSX:GIB.A: 1.06

CGI Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for CGI'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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CGI Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

CGI 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 1.09 2.04 1.70 1.57 1.33

CGI 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 1.46 1.34 1.33 1.30 1.10

Competitive Comparison of CGI's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, CGI'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.


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

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

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



CGI Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

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

CGI'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
=(1357.828 + 2384.456) / 2805.329
=1.33

CGI'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
=(687.734 + 2313.318) / 2729.844
=1.10

* 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.


CGI  (TSX:GIB.A) 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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CGI (TSX:GIB.A) Business Description

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Address
1350 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 25th Floor, Montreal, QC, CAN, H3G 1T4
CGI Inc. is a Canada-based IT-services provider with an embedded position in North America and Europe. The company generates more than CAD 14 billion in annual revenue, employs over 90,000 personnel, and operates across 400 offices in 40 countries. CGI offers a broad portfolio of services such as consulting, systems integration, application maintenance, and business process services, or BPS. The company's largest vertical market is government, which contributes more than a third of group revenue.

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