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Glen Bradford
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What we have here below is a chart that BDC Buzz put together that I linked to on seekingalpha.com. What is interesting to me is the averages. The average portfolio Yield is 11.8% and the average portfolio debt/ebitda is 4.3x. We can assume that on average these are stable businesses, I suppose just for the sake of maths.

For any company that has $1M in EBITDA, on average the debt is $4.3M and the annual interest payments on that debt are $0.507M. Means like an interest coverage ratio of 2.0x, on average.

I am used to seeing 3.1x-3.8x in Total Debt/EBITDA multiples with 2.2x-2.6x in Senior Debt/EBITDA multiples coming out with a total EV/EBITDA multiple of 5.9x-6.8x for generally stable businesses.

Note that Warren Buffettrecently did Heinz at TEV/EBITDA of 14X and SR. DEBT/EBITDA of like 6.5X and then Total Debt/ebitda if you include his preferreds at 10.2X that pay 9%.

Idearc was at 7.0x and RHD was at 9.0X in terms of debt/ebitda a few years ago.

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MBA from Purdue. Former hedge fund manager. Holds 26 series of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac junior preferred stock. Built Cloud Nimbus for Salesforce consulting. Author of Act As If. Writes about investing, building things, and the longest financial fraud in American history.

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