(1) The credit rating agency said that according to its estimate of ITV's adjusted debt to Ebitda – earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation – it believes the ratio will "exceed" four times for 2008 "with a possible increase to about five times in 2009".
(2) The group reported a 42% year-on-year increase in adjusted pre-tax profits, before taking into account factors such as amortisation and exceptional charges, to £110m.
(3) The slim document predicts that underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation will leap by more than 80% from £31.7m in 2010 to almost £60m in 2012.
(4) Regulation is a fixed cost, so the bigger you are, the more clout you have to amortise [spread] it over.
(5) Overall, revenues at ITV's broadcasting and online division grew by 14.7% to £1.77bn as earnings before interest, tax and amortisation more than tripled from £111m to £327m.
(6) That reflected a tough year for radio advertising, although before exceptionals and amortisation charges, GMG Radio did generate a return of £0.9m.
(7) This loss consisted of a 75% year-on-year fall in earnings before interest, tax and amortisation to €4m at the main channel and a loss of €14m at digital channels Fiver and Five USA.
(8) That’s up from $101m in 2012 – both games launched in the summer of that year – with the company’s earnings before interest, tax and amortisation rising from $51m in 2012 to $464m in 2013.
(9) After a comical disclaimer from authors Deloitte that "no reliance may be placed for any purposes whatsoever on the contents of this document", it discusses the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention gap and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation margin.
(10) The shares will pay out if Sports Direct achieves £330m of core earnings this year and £410m the year after, as well as limiting net debt to 1.5 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
(11) The company's earnings before interest, tax and amortisation for 2012 is forecast to be at least $10m.
(12) Channel Five group's operating earnings before interest tax and amortisation fell from a €2m profit in 2008 to a loss of €10m last year.
(13) The company also reported that earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were up 19% to £1.4bn.
(14) The price is around 30 times London City’s earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in 2015.
(15) National Express's two other rail franchises, c2c and National Express East Anglia, generate about £30m a year in earnings before interest, tax and amortisation for a balance sheet that is struggling with borrowings and the loss-making east coast deal.
(16) GMG Radio reported a £4.1m pre-tax loss with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of just over £2m.
(17) Overall, the company reported revenues up 2.9% to £963m and operating cashflow – broadly equivalent to earnings before, interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation – of £356m.
(18) Mecom, which rebuffed a merger offer from Trinity Mirror in November , said that earnings before, interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation is expected to be €155m (£129m), up from €121m in 2009.
(19) GMG Radio reported a £4.1m pre tax loss with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of just over £2m.
(20) It's not actually a lot of money because it's amortised over 10-12 years.
Amortize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make as if dead; to destroy.
(v. t.) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.
(v. t.) To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.
Example Sentences:
(1) With recent recognition by many third party carriers this equipment may amortize itself rapidly but, more importantly, it may serve to identify neurological diseases of the bladder that are undetected by other conventional methods of investigation.
(2) If amortized additional capital costs are included, there is a 12% reduction in overall costs.
(3) Purchase and amortization of the pumps decreases the cost.
(4) If we were to freeze the system in its current state, amortize the development and network installation costs, and add projected maintenance costs for the clinical and library applications, our integrated information system would cost $2.8 million on an annual basis.
(5) Indirect costs for hospitals and physicians, including depreciation and amortization, debt service, utilities, malpractice insurance, administration, billing, registration, and medical records were not included.
(6) In addition, our criteria outline the characteristics of "distressed transactions" that, individually or collectively, we consider when forming an opinion on whether the resulting newly issued debt has "less value than the promise of the original securities," a primary condition of a distressed exchange or similar restructuring: The combination of any cash amount and principal amount of new securities offered is less than the original par amount; The interest rate is lower than the original interest rate; The new securities' maturities extend beyond the original; The timing of payments is slowed (eg zero-coupon from quarterly paying, or bullet from amortizing); or The ranking is altered to more junior.
(7) These include the impact of PACS on physician productivity, maintenance costs, discount rates, and the time period for amortization of capital goods.
(8) assumed the following functions: a) It filled up the masseter-zygomaticus-buccinator space forming an amortizing and a slipping platform for the masticatory muscles in action; b) in the baby, it resisted to the negative pressure which acted into the buccal cavity during sucking; c) its rich venous net, provided with valve-like structures, may be implicated in the exo-endocranial blood flow by means of the pterygoid plexus.
(9) These bundles appear to serve as a peculiar anchor or amortizing apparatus and its elasticity might be a factor of a change of the shape and direction of the canal vessels in the bone development process.
(10) Cost-efficiency: Amortized costs of monitoring systems that were apparently initially very expensive can be very low, especially in comparison with other capital outlays and the costs of disposable plastics and supplies used during anesthesia.
(11) In the present work are analyzed the most frequently met omissions and errors in the measurement and evaluation of the general vibrations, as well as the factors, which can effect the intensity of the general vibrations; constructive and technological peculiarities, technical state, rate of machine amortization, construction, damping qualities, and regulation of the seat, motion velocity, relief, type of the performed agricultural activity.
(12) The expenses for the amortization of the cost of the bunker, for ordinary and extraordinary maintenance, for the employed staff and for the electric power respectively, represent the 22%, 5%, 43% and 2% of the total management cost (395 milions lire per year).
(13) The average purchase cost of an accelerator was 1113 milions lire and the amortization cost is 111 milions lire per year.
(14) This goal could be achieved through a selection of significant images and examinations, considerably reducing the cost of film reproduction and allowing the amortization of a partial PACS in about 5 or 6 years.
(15) The EU would have to modify the fiscal compact to exempt the callable capital and allow actual losses to be amortized over a number of years.
(16) Exclusive of equipment costs, amortization, and data processing, the cost per study is $33.81 (Canadian), resulting in a cost of $8,277.62 for each case diagnosed.
(17) the readiness to bear objective as well as psychological "costs" without guarantee of amortization, is only slight.
(18) Excluding amortization of material and personnel costs, findings confirmed a certain number of advantages for AN: gain in time of about 34%, decrease of about 14% in charges, and notably of 83% in expenditure on films and 50% on contrast media.
(19) The implicity of this technique is depending however on the amortic thinking.
(20) Calculations of the total population exposure from nuclear medicine procedures indicate the per capita dose (amortized over the entire population) is approximately 0.4 muSv (0.04 mrem), a negligible dose compared to natural background and total medical irradiation.