Enterprise & Equity Value
A company's Net Debt / EBITDA is negative 1.5x. What does that tell you, and is the ratio still useful?
Model answer
It means the company is in a NET CASH position - cash exceeds debt - and the surplus equals about 1.5 years of EBITDA. As a leverage metric the negative ratio stops being meaningful: you can't be…
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