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. Breeze-Eastern's
Operating Income
for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $4.42 Mil. Breeze-Eastern's Interest Expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $-0.01 Mil.
Breeze-Eastern's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was 552.63.
The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.
The historical rank and industry rank for Breeze-Eastern's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:
BZC's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
Industry Median: 6.98 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.
The historical data trend for Breeze-Eastern'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.
Competitive Comparison of Breeze-Eastern's Interest Coverage
For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, Breeze-Eastern'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.
Breeze-Eastern's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry
For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, Breeze-Eastern's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Breeze-Eastern's Interest Coverage falls into.
Breeze-Eastern 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:
* 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.
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 .
Breeze-Eastern Interest Coverage Related Terms
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Breeze-Eastern (Breeze-Eastern) Business Description
Breeze-Eastern Corp a Delaware corporation was organized in 1962. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services sophisticated engineered mission equipment for specialty aerospace and defense applications. Its core business is aerospace and defense products. The Company develops helicopter hoist and winch systems, including systems for the current generation of Sikorsky H-60 Blackhawk and Naval Hawk, Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey, Boeing CH-47 Chinook, Dolphin, Changhe Z-11, Agusta Westland A-W109, AW119 and AW139 helicopter. It also designs, markets, sells and services a line of hydraulic and electric aircraft cargo winch system. Its external cargo hook systems are original equipment on military medium and heavy lift helicopters. Its latest designs incorporate load sensing and display technology and automatic load release features. It also manufactures cargo and aircraft tie-downs which are included in this product line. It makes static-line retrieval and cargo winches for military cargo aircraft including the Boeing C-17, Alenia C-27J and CASA CN-235 and CASA C-295. Its weapons handling systems include weapons handling equipment for land-based rocket launchers and munitions hoists for loading missiles and other loads using electric power or exchangeable battery packs. It supplies this equipment for the United States, Japanese and European Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) and the United States High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). It performs overhaul, repair and maintenance services for all of its products. These services are performed at its Whippany, New Jersey facility. It also has licensed third-party vendors to perform these services.
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