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EV/EBITDA

What is EV/EBITDA?

This is a calculation used to value a business. EV stands for enterprise value, while EBITDA is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation. It’s a measure of a company’s operating performance based on data from its income statement.

Where have you heard about EV/EBITDA?

EBITDA is one of the operating measures most used by analysts and investors, although generally speaking it’s most useful for large companies that have significant assets or a large amount of debt financing. It's not so worthwhile in evaluating a small company with no significant loans.

What you need to know about EV/EBITDA...

The formula for calculating EBITDA is: EBITDA = EBIT + depreciation + amortisation.

It can tell you a lot about companies which have large amounts of fixed assets that are subject to heavy depreciation changes, such as in the manufacturing industry, or where a company has recently made a large acquisition.

It allows you to focus on operating profitability as a single measure of performance, so you can easily compare similar companies across a single industry, or companies operating in different tax brackets.

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