{"id":22530,"date":"2020-04-08T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/ebitda\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:22:04","slug":"ebitda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ebitda","title":{"rendered":"EBITDA &#8211; Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of EBITDA in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>EBITDA stands for: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization.<\/p>\n<p>This <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/kpi-key-performance-indicators\">KPI<\/a> is used to determine how profitable a company or business is with regard to its operations (the profit on the products it produces and sells).<\/p>\n<p>EBITDA is calculated by taking the company\u2019s earnings before interest, tax, amortization and depreciation and subtracting them from the company\u2019s total amount of revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Is an indicator of a company\u2019s financial performance and can be used to analyze and compare profitability between hotels \/ companies \/ industries because it eliminates the effects of financing and accounting decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How do you calculate EBITDA?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>EBITDA Formula<\/strong>:\u00a0Revenue \u2013 Expenses*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>* Expenses in this case are excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ebitdar\">EBITDAR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/nop-net-operating-profit\">NOP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/gop-gross-operating-profit\">GOP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EBITDA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of EBITDA in the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EBITDA Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: EBITDA stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ebitda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EBITDA Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: EBITDA stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/ebitda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-08T09:57:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-23T09:22:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/ebitda#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/ebitda\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"EBITDA &#8211; 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