Tech: All About EBITDA
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We tackle a listener question on today's show -- why should I care about EBITDA?
Listen in to get a breakdown of the metric, how it can be used for good, and how it can be abused by businesses trying to mask bad results.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, a podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Friday, April 5th, and we're talking about a big non-gap metric. I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I've got Motley Fool |
| 0:15.0 | premium analyst Tim Byers on Skype. Tim what's going on? |
| 0:18.6 | How you doing Dylan? Yeah, I'm doing all right It's nice to chat with you. |
| 0:23.0 | You are over in our Colorado office and for anyone that winds up watching the video of this, you have a very |
| 0:27.6 | nice scenic Colorado-esque backdrop behind you. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, we're in the Flat Irons Conference Room. We put up some murals to |
| 0:34.8 | celebrate the mountains around us. And so this one is the Flat Irons Conference Room in Boulder. |
| 0:41.9 | And so you're seeing a picture of Boulder behind me even though I'm not actually |
| 0:47.8 | in Boulder. |
| 0:48.8 | I was going to say I've seen pictures out the window of the Colorado office that we have and it looks an awful lot like that. |
| 0:55.1 | So you could have had me fooled there. |
| 0:57.0 | Well I'm happy to have you on. |
| 0:59.2 | We haven't actually done a show together to my knowledge and you know in the time that you've been |
| 1:04.8 | out in Colorado I'm just happy to have an excuse to chat with you Tim. Yeah same here |
| 1:10.2 | man I mean it's a and and we've known each other over over the years because I was |
| 1:16.6 | writing for fool.com for so many years and and so yeah this is the first time we've ever done something like this. |
| 1:24.0 | You know about companies that I think are you know have sort of either exploited or abused this topic that we're going to get into. |
| 1:37.8 | That's absolutely true and the reason that you're on today is we got a listener question and |
| 1:42.4 | I put it out to the folks that are kind of aware of our |
| 1:46.1 | podcast and involved in our podcasts and said like hey does anybody want to tackle this and |
| 1:50.1 | you shot up immediately and said yes I want in so I'm going to read that question |
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