EBITDA, Explained | Quick Lesson

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00:00 📊 EBITDA stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, a crucial measure of accounting profit with controversies. 00:27 🍎 Exploring Apple's EBITDA and the process of finding it within their SEC filings and financial statements. 03:17 🔄 EBIT is often used interchangeably with operating income and is closely related to EBITDA. 03:56 💡 EBITDA is normalized operating earnings from core business activities, excluding non-cash expenses and non-core items like interest and taxes. 06:19 🔄 EBITDA can be calculated by adding back depreciation and amortization to EBIT or starting with net income and adding back taxes, interest, depreciation, and amortization. 08:52 📊 EBITDA provides a measure of normalized operating earnings that excludes non-cash expenses and focuses on core business activities. 10:57 ⚖ EBITDA's controversies include excluding capital expenditures (capex) and not factoring in changes in networking capital. 12:52 🔄 EBITDA attempts to balance accrual and cash accounting perspectives but has inherent limitations and criticisms. 15:35 📈 EBITDA margins serve as important benchmarks for profitability, often used to assess a company's financial health. 17:00 📊 Forecasting EBITDA can involve both top-down and bottom-up approaches, considering revenue and expenses or starting from profits and working upward.

[@josephmotsamai5505]

This is the best video in explaining EBITDA, keep it up!!!

[@financnifitness2583]

Great video about EBITDA! I would like to ask you out of theme a little bit, but how did you make the words bigger at 8:13, what google extension did you use? :)

[@TheEstabella]

Thank you for making it clear 😊

[@GiulioEF]

I am not sure about taking operating profit as a proxy for EBIT though. Isn't it possible that the two metrics differ a lot in case there are non-operating expenses?

[@reanwithkimleng]

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[@barrybrenner1089]

So the DJT EBITDA is -396% today, is that bad? 😂😂😂