Signature Eyewear (Signature Eyewear) Interest Coverage : 1.33 (As of Apr. 2011)

Signature Eyewear Interest Coverage Chart

Signature Eyewear Annual Data
	Trend	Oct01	Oct02	Oct03	Oct04	Oct05	Oct06	Oct07	Oct08	Oct09	Oct10
Interest Coverage		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					N/A	N/A	N/A	4.45	4.05

Signature Eyewear Quarterly Data
	Jul06	Oct06	Jan07	Apr07	Jul07	Oct07	Jan08	Apr08	Jul08	Oct08	Jan09	Apr09	Jul09	Oct09	Jan10	Apr10	Jul10	Oct10	Jan11	Apr11
Interest Coverage	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															4.57	4.75	2.52	3.62	1.33

Competitive Comparison of Signature Eyewear's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Signature Eyewear'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.

Signature Eyewear's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Signature Eyewear's Interest Coverage falls into.

Signature Eyewear 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

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

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

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

Signature Eyewear's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2010 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2010, Signature Eyewear's Interest Expense was $-0.16 Mil. Its Operating Income was $0.64 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $3.72 Mil.

Signature Eyewear's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2011 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Apr. 2011, Signature Eyewear's Interest Expense was $-0.03 Mil. Its Operating Income was $0.04 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $3.93 Mil.

* 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.

Signature Eyewear  (OTCPK:SEYE) 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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