EV / EBITDA

$$\frac{\text{EV}}{\text{EBITDA}},\text{ EV}=\text{Market cap}+\text{Total debt}-\text{Cash}+\text{Preferred}+\text{Minority interest}$$

Enterprise value to EBITDA. Capital-structure-neutral valuation read. Preferred stock and balance-sheet minority interest are included when tagged, defaulted to 0 otherwise — matters for holdcos (e.g. BRK) and regulated utilities.

Direction: Lower better Category: valuation

Inputs (XBRL fallback chains):

• cash: CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue -> CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents -> Cash
• 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 market cap or EBITDA components are missing or EBITDA ≤ 0.

Source code

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