if you say “ebit…DA” go fuck urself
Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re out here saying “EBIT…DA” like it’s some kind of sexy, sacred chant—get in the bin.
No one gives a shit that you learned what EBITDA stands for last week and now you’re saying it like it’s a TED Talk. It’s one fucking word. Not some dramatic pause-audition for finance theater. You’re not the Wolf of Wall Street, bro—you’re just a junior analyst praying your boss doesn’t ask you to re-run comps again for the sixteenth time.
“EBIT… DA” is not profound. It’s not poetic. It’s not edgy. It’s literally just a band-aid metric used to pretend dogshit companies are only one add-back away from profitability.
And if you’re out here on calls doing that little emphasis like “Oh, well if you normalize for EBIT…DA”—congrats, you just told everyone you peaked during your investment banking info session and have no friends.
shut the fuck up and say EBITDA like a normal person. You’re not impressing anyone, you’re just making everyone want to shut your fucking mouth.
like people who say fi-nance instead of Fy-nance
100% they deserve to get sent to the Gulag as well
I think this is generational. I've noticed with older people on wall street (45+) like half of them say fi-nance. Never heard anyone younger say it like that and it would definitly be weird if they did
I thought the diff was one pronunciation was for the industry and one was for the act of financing
Like debt and debit. Both are finance words. Clearly meant to be pronounced the same way.
E-bit-dah
or
ebb-it-dah
Neither, only E-Bit-duh
E-bit-duh. But I will never stop saying fen-ance
I prefer to say each letter slowly with pauses in between letter
E…B…I…T…D….A
Sometimes I’ll prefer to say the full acronym so fast it sounds like one word
Earningsbeforeinteresttaxedeprecationamortization
This is the only correct answer
You know who loved EBITDA?
Joey Peeps
EBIT-DAH is the only correct answer
EBIT is real life. the -da is accounting trickery. You aren't getting depreciation and amortization back.
Every Italian banking/PE guy says it like that
Yea for what it’s worth, one of the only people who I can recall that says it that way is like a billionaire ex-GS banker who helped 10x the value of his family’s wealth from $100mm to $1bn+.
from what I remember he specifically only referred to that metric as EBIT…. D…A
I figure he has a right to take his own stance with that pronunciation because of his financial status… lol
Del
Just wait until you hear them pronounce EBITDAR
I like EBITDARRR
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