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Before ASC 842/IFRS 16, how did analysts estimate the debt-equivalent of operating leases?

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Operating leases were off-balance-sheet, so analysts capitalized them with a rule of thumb: roughly 8x annual rent expense (the '8x rent' multiple) to approximate the present value of future lease…

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