Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and restructuring or rent costs

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Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and restructuring or rent costs (EBITDAR) is a non-GAAP metric that can be used to evaluate a company's financial performance.

EBITDAR = revenue – expenses (excluding tax, interest, depreciation, amortization and rent costs)

EBITDAR can be of use when comparing two companies in the same industry with different structure of their assets. For example, consider two nursing home companies: one company rents its nursing homes and the other owns its homes and thus does not pay rent but instead has to make capital expenditures that are not necessarily of the same order of magnitude as the depreciation. By looking at EBITDAR, one can compare the efficiency of the companies' operations, without regard to the structure of their assets.

Some companies use an EBITDAR where "R" indicates "Rinel Costs". While this analysis of profits before restructuring costs is also helpful, such a metric should better be termed 'adjusted EBITDA'.

Related to EBITDAR is "EBITDAL", "rent costs" being replaced by "lease costs".

See also

• Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)
• Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization (EBITA)
• Earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation (EBITD)
• Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA)
• EV/EBITDA
• Gross profit
• Net income
• Net profit
• Operating income before depreciation and amortization (OIBDA)
• P/E ratio
• Revenue
• SG&A

References

• Investopedia definition of EBITDAR