The EV/EBITDA of Radius Recycling Inc. is 14.28
EV/EBITDA is enterprise value divided by earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization. It is a measure of how expensive a stock is and is more frequently valid for comparisons across companies than the price to earnings ratio. It measures the price (in the form of enterprise value) an investor pays for the benefit of the company’s cash flow (in the form of EBITDA).
= enterprise value / EBITDA
Price to earnings ratios are impacted by a company's choice of capital structure - companies which raise money via debt will have lower P/Es (and therefore look cheaper) than companies that raise an equivalent amount of money by issuing shares, even though the two companies might have equivalent enterprise values. A sample case is when a company with debt were to raise money by issuing shares of stock, and then used the money to pay off the debt, this company's P/E ratio would shoot up because of the increased number of shares - although nothing about the fundamental value of the business has changed. EV / EBITDA is unaffected by capital structure as enterprise value includes the value of debt, and EBITDA is available to all investors (debt and equity) as it excludes interest payments on that debt. It is ideal for analysts and potential investors looking to compare companies within the same industry.
founded in 1906 as a one-man scrap metal operation, schnitzer steel industries, inc., has become one of the nation's largest recyclers of scrap metal, a leading provider of used and recycled auto parts and a manufacturer of finished steel products. with a rapidly growing national and global reach, the company achieved $2.5 billion in revenues in fiscal 2014 and was ranked #853 in the 2015 fortune 1000 list of companies. schnitzer steel common stock is traded on the nasdaq stock market under the symbol schn. with corporate headquarters based in portland, oregon, the company is split into three vertically integrated business units, the metals recycling business, the auto parts business and the steel manufacturing business. career site: http://www.schnitzersteel.com/careers.aspx