GURUFOCUS.COM » STOCK LIST » Consumer Cyclical » Vehicles & Parts » Surface Transforms PLC (LSE:SCE) » Definitions » EBITDA

Surface Transforms (LSE:SCE) EBITDA : £-7.71 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2023)


View and export this data going back to 2002. Start your Free Trial

What is Surface Transforms EBITDA?

Surface Transforms's EBITDA for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was £-4.81 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was £-7.71 Mil.

During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -25.30% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -16.70% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was -25.70% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA Growth Rate using EBITDA data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Surface Transforms was 16.40% per year. The lowest was -92.60% per year. And the median was -9.05% per year.

Surface Transforms's EBITDA per Share for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was £-0.02. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 was £-0.03.

During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was -5.00% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 2.20% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was -2.10% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA per share growth rate using EBITDA per Share data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Surface Transforms was 28.60% per year. The lowest was -84.00% per year. And the median was 6.10% per year.


Surface Transforms EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Surface Transforms's 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.

* Premium members only.

Surface Transforms EBITDA Chart

Surface Transforms Annual Data
Trend May13 May14 May15 May16 May17 May18 May19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -2.01 -2.49 -2.31 -3.77 -4.90

Surface Transforms Semi-Annual Data
Nov13 May14 Nov14 May15 Nov15 May16 Nov16 May17 Nov17 May18 Nov18 May19 Nov19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
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 -1.82 -1.95 -2.00 -2.90 -4.81

Competitive Comparison of Surface Transforms's EBITDA

For the Auto Parts subindustry, Surface Transforms's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-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.


Surface Transforms's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Vehicles & Parts Industry

For the Vehicles & Parts industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Surface Transforms's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Surface Transforms's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Surface Transforms's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Surface Transforms's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in Dec. 2022, Surface Transforms's EBITDA was £-4.90 Mil.

Surface Transforms's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Surface Transforms's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in Jun. 2023, Surface Transforms's EBITDA was £-4.81 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2023 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was £-7.71 Mil.

* 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.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

Surface Transforms  (LSE:SCE) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


Surface Transforms EBITDA Related Terms

Thank you for viewing the detailed overview of Surface Transforms's EBITDA provided by GuruFocus.com. Please click on the following links to see related term pages.


Surface Transforms (LSE:SCE) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Acornfield Road, Knowsley Industrial Estate, Image Business Park, Liverpool, GBR, L33 7UF
Surface Transforms PLC is a company that develops, manufactures, and markets carbon-ceramic products for the brakes market. It also engages in developing new products and applications for carbon fiber-reinforced ceramic friction and non-friction materials. It has operations spread across the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden the United States of America, the Rest of Europe, and the Rest of the World.

Surface Transforms (LSE:SCE) Headlines

No Headlines