Ebitda Quotes

I think that, every time you see the word EBITDA, you should substitute the words "bullshit earnings.

By focusing on a few key financial metrics, board members can transform these statements from a labyrinth into a compass, guiding them through the company's financial landscape.

All else being constant, Gross Profit is more important than EBITDA.

We usually had four big targets a year: market share, expenses, EBITDA and cash.

We have lifted EBITDA from a $30 million run rate to $60 million in the 2012 financial year. This has involved rationalisation of the product range and brands, with a reduction of SKUs from 450 to 250, together with some cost savings throughout the group.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. When companies or investment professionals use terms such as "EBITDA" and "pro forma," they want you to unthinkingly accept concepts that are dangerously flawed.

As any business person will tell you, the value of a traditional company is based on thirty times its EBITDA (earnings before income and tax depreciation of assets). If the company makes $1 million a year, it is said to be worth $30 million.

As any business person will tell you, the value of a traditional company is based on thirty times its EBITDA (earnings before income and tax depreciation of assets). If the company makes $1 million a year, it is said to be worth $30 million. But the Internet wasn’t measured in those terms because most people weren’t making any money. Instead, Internet companies were evaluated on the perception that someday, in the not-too-distant future, simply because of their connection to the Internet, they would be rolling in huge amounts of cash.

EBITDA, as we noted earlier, is no longer Wall Street’s favorite measure to watch. Now the hot metric is free cash flow. Some companies have looked at free cash flow for years. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is the bestknown example, though Buffett calls it owner earnings. As Buffett’s term suggests, it’s an important metric for entrepreneurial companies.

despesas financeiras refletem uma decisão de estrutura de capital, que é definida pelos sócios, e não a eficiência dos dois gestores na administração dos investimentos operacionais.

If “nonrecurring” charges keep recurring, “extraordinary” items crop up so often that they seem ordinary, acronyms like EBITDA take priority over net income, or “pro forma” earnings are used to cloak actual losses, you may be looking at a firm that has not yet learned how to put its shareholders’ long-term interests first.9

References to EBITDA make us shudder — does management think the tooth fairy pays for capital expenditures?

otro lado del espectro es que al mismo tiempo las empresas buscan la forma de satisfacer estas necesidades, eligiendo aquellas oportunidades de digitalización que afecten de forma positiva su EBITDA o beneficios gruesos a través de la optimización de sus activos inmuebles. Es por eso que en un momento como el de ahora en el que hay tantas startups y nuevas estrategias a su disposición, para enfrentarse a esta saturación utilizan a grueso modo cuatro aspectos principales de análisis que les ayudan a discernir la prioridad

The outstanding debt of six conglomerates—Lanco, Jaypee, GMR, Videocon, GVK and Essar—was even more excessive than ADAG in relation to their respective EBITDAs. However, ADAG had the highest outstanding debt among the ten conglomerates. ADAG was thus billed as India’s most indebted company by the media.

some investors treat depreciation as if it were not an expense by adding it back to operating income. For example, they use a metric called EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) to analyze the earning power of a company and compare it to its competitors. This kind of thinking is flawed.

Trumpeting EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) is a particularly pernicious practice. Doing so implies that depreciation is not truly an expense, given that it is a “non-cash” charge. Imagine, if you will, that at the beginning of this year a company paid all of its employees for the next ten years of their service (in the way they would lay out cash for a fixed asset to be useful for ten years). In the following nine years, compensation would be a “non-cash” expense—a reduction of a prepaid compensation asset established this year. Would anyone care to argue that the recording of the expense in years two through ten would be simply a bookkeeping formality?

EBITDA is an acronym for "earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization." It is computed by taking a company’s net income for a particular period and adding back the amount of interest expense, tax expense, depreciation and amortization for such period, all of which, under GAAP, have been deducted in arriving at the net income figure. Financial analysts consider EBITDA to be one of the most important measures of a company’s operating financial performance.