The EV/EBITDA of SUEZ SA is 10.15
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.
Suez SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the water cycle and waste cycle management business in France, rest of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through four segments: Water; Recycling and Recovery; Environmental Technology & Solutions; and Other. It provides water distribution and treatment services to individuals, local authorities, and industrial clients; and waste and waste treatment services, including collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous waste for local authorities and industrial clients. The company also offers water network management services; technical assistance, operation, cleaning, and maintenance services; and spare parts, refurbishment, and associated services, as well as designs and operates storage facilities for hazardous and non-hazardous residual waste. In addition, it provides resources management consulting services; engineering and construction contracts and other services; and digital technology solutions for resource and asset protection, as well as deconstructs sites in the end-of-life phase and decontaminates soil and water tables. The company serves food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical, construction, site deconstruction and soil decontamination, mining and metals, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, electronics and electrical, automotive, transport, and aeronautic industries. Suez SA was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Paris, France. As of January 7, 2022, Suez SA operates as a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement S.A.