Debt / EBITDA

$$\frac{\text{Total debt}}{\text{EBITDA}}$$

Years of EBITDA needed to pay down all debt. Standard credit-quality screen — covenants often kick in at 3-4x.

Direction: Lower better Category: solvency

Inputs (XBRL fallback chains):

• depreciation_amortization: DepreciationAndAmortization -> DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization -> Depreciation
• long_term_debt: LongTermDebt -> LongTermDebtNoncurrent
• operating_income: OperatingIncomeLoss
• short_term_debt: ShortTermBorrowings -> DebtCurrent -> LongTermDebtCurrent

Returns None when: Returns None when Total debt or EBITDA components (operating income, D&A) are missing.

Source code

Implementation: debt_to_ebitda in src/eqtytrk/metrics/ratios.py (or valuation.py for multiples).