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Reflect Scientific (Reflect Scientific) Interest Coverage : N/A (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Reflect Scientific Interest Coverage?

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income by its Interest Expense. Reflect Scientific's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-0.04 Mil. Reflect Scientific's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.00 Mil. GuruFocus does not calculate 's interest coverage with the available data. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Reflect Scientific Inc has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


RSCF's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 17.89
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.


Reflect Scientific Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Note: For Interest Coverage, "No debt" indicates no long-term debt. An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Reflect Scientific Interest Coverage Chart

Reflect Scientific Annual Data
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Reflect Scientific Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage, along with its competitors' market caps and Interest Coverage data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage falls into.



Reflect Scientific Interest Coverage Calculation

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

If Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

The company did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

The company had no debt (1).


Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Reflect Scientific's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-0.47 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.18 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Reflect Scientific's interest coverage with the available data.

Reflect Scientific's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Reflect Scientific's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-0.04 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.16 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Reflect Scientific's interest coverage with the available data.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.


Reflect Scientific  (OTCPK:RSCF) Interest Coverage Explanation

Ben Graham requires that a company has a minimum interest coverage of 5 with the companies he invested. If the interest coverage is less than 2, the company is burdened by debt. Any business slow or recession may drag the company into a situation where it cannot pay the interest on its debt.

Interest Coverage is an important factor when GuruFocus ranks a company's overage Financial Strength .


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Reflect Scientific (Reflect Scientific) Business Description

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Address
1266 South 1380 West, Orem, UT, USA, 84058
Reflect Scientific Inc is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of products targeted at the life science market. The company serves a varies array of customers including hospitals and diagnostic laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, universities, government and private sector research facilities, and chemical and industrial companies. The products of the company are Cryometrix Freezers which provides energy savings and other critically important benefits to cryo-storage customers in the Life Science related industries, and detectors that serve the analytical instrumentation sector of the Life Sciences market. The company sells its products in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical industries.
Executives
Kim Boyce director, 10 percent owner, officer: President 1266 SOUTH 1380 WEST, OREM UT 84058
Keith L Merrell officer: CFO 1240 MUELLER PARK ROAD, BOUNTIFUL UT 84010
William G Moon director 1266 SOUTH 1380 WEST, OREM UT 84058
David Scott Strate officer: CFO 1270 S 1380 W, OREM UT 84058
Kevin Cooksy officer: Secretary Treasurer 3161 GRANADA DRIVE, CAMERON PARK CA 95682
Craig Morrison director 975 NORTH TERRACE DRIVE, PROVO UT 84604
Thomas A Tait director, officer: Vice President 514 AMERICAS WAY #5556, BOX ELDER SD 57719