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Del Monte Pacific (SGX:D03) Interest Coverage : 0.43 (As of Jan. 2024)


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What is Del Monte Pacific 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. Del Monte Pacific's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was S$30 Mil. Del Monte Pacific's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was S$-70 Mil. Del Monte Pacific's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 0.43. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Del Monte Pacific Ltd interest coverage is 1.1, which is low.

The historical rank and industry rank for Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

SGX:D03' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.32   Med: 1.26   Max: 2.74
Current: 1.1


SGX:D03's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
91.9% of 1370 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 8.395 vs SGX:D03: 1.10

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


Del Monte Pacific Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Del Monte Pacific'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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Del Monte Pacific Interest Coverage Chart

Del Monte Pacific Annual Data
Trend Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20 Apr21 Apr22 Apr23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.90 0.55 2.02 2.74 1.88

Del Monte Pacific Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.54 - 0.60 0.90 0.43

Competitive Comparison of Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Del Monte Pacific'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.


Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage falls into.



Del Monte Pacific 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.

Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023, Del Monte Pacific's Interest Expense was S$-174 Mil. Its Operating Income was S$327 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was S$1,421 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Apr. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Apr. 2023 )
=-1*327.087/-174.425
=1.88

Del Monte Pacific's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Jan. 2024, Del Monte Pacific's Interest Expense was S$-70 Mil. Its Operating Income was S$30 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was S$1,492 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Jan. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=-1*30.476/-70.487
=0.43

* 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.


Del Monte Pacific  (SGX:D03) 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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Del Monte Pacific (SGX:D03) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
17 Bukit Pasoh Road, Singapore, SGP, 089831
Del Monte Pacific Ltd is engaged in growing, processing, developing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and selling packaged fruits and vegetables, and other food products. The company operates through four divisions Packaged fruit and vegetable which includes the sale of processed fruit and vegetable products under the Del Monte and S&W brands; the Beverage segment includes the sale of pineapple juice in the can, tetra, and PET packaging, and pineapple juice concentrate; Culinary segment includes sale of packaged tomato-based products such as ketchup, tomato sauce, pasta sauce, recipe sauce, pizza sauce, pasta and other; and Fresh fruit and others includes sale of S&W branded fresh pineapples in Asia Pacific. The majority of the company's revenue comes from the Americas.

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