Earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) grew at an 85% clip in the six-month interim period ended in June 2005.
In fact, its media network that includes the ABC television network and the sports cable channel ESPN account for 46% of revenues and 67% of earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization.
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Now Bucksbaum will hike his company's debt ratio from 56% to 70% and drive down its interest coverage (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization divided by interest) from two to 1.6 times.
Sales growth rose 9% a year, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization grows 17% a year.
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What's more encouraging is that while warning about American Online ads, the parent company reaffirmed its guidance on its overall performance--both sales and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Half its business--48% of revenue and 49% of operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)--comes from commercial aviation.
He notes that the stock continues to trade at a discount to its peers, such as Kroger (KR) and Safeway (SWY) based on p-e ratios and price-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) multiples.
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In the buyout offer's prospectus, Clarins said currency rates and product development costs could cause year-end earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to falls as much as 14.5% from last year.
Various costs are subtracted from the revenues to calculate various progressively smaller measures of profit and loss: gross income, net income, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), taxable income, etc.
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Merrill Lynch figured it was priced at 16 times operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Currently, teams essentially cannot have debt exceed 10 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Its debt is 8 times Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) versus the industry average of 3.9.
Better to turn to enterprise multiple enterprise value divided by 12-month trailing operating profits (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) increased 4.5%, to 16.1 million pounds during the quarter ending September 30.
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Southwest has maintained an average operating margin (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as a percentage of revenue) of 18%.
The latter is defined as enterprise value (market value plus net debt) divided by earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Scaglia predicts the company will break even on a cash flow basis (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization EBITDA) by 2003.
Murodch lusts after the 35% operating margins (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as a percent of revenue) enjoyed by ESPN.
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In 2011, private-equity firms paid acquisition prices averaging nearly nine times the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, of target companies.
Debt-service coverage is defined as EBITDA, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, relative to the current portion of long-term debt and interest.
Last season they posted an operating margin of 12% (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as a percentage of revenue).
This is the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common stock, plus debt, minus cash) to operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Selling for a ratio of six times enterprise value (market cap plus long-term debt) to EBITDA cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), Cemex looks cheap.
The leases make up only 30% of Global revenue (the bulk comes from Frontier), but they account for most of adjusted ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Analysts for Citigroup note that the purchase price, if the deal is executed as announced Thursday, amounts to a hefty 18 times 2008 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Yet the Pats lagged the league average in profitability (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, all divided by enterprise value) in both years it won the Super Bowl.
Another figure that troubled investors is LinkedIn's forecast for its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA. This measure provides an inkling of how much money the company is likely to make.
Hctor Medina, Cemex executive vice president of planning and finance, says Cemex's ratio of debt to cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) currently stands at 3.55 and should soon fall to 3.0.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
This business had a fat 33% operating margin (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), and its top line--goosed by immigrants sending money back home to their families--was increasing at a 14% annual clip.
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