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. Furmanite's
Operating Income
for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $3.1 Mil. Furmanite's Interest Expense for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $-0.3 Mil.
Furmanite's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was 9.09.
The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.
The historical rank and industry rank for Furmanite's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:
FRM's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 7.08 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.
The historical data trend for Furmanite'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 Furmanite's Interest Coverage
For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Furmanite'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.
Furmanite's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Construction Industry
For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Furmanite's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Furmanite's Interest Coverage falls into.
Furmanite 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 .
Furmanite Interest Coverage Related Terms
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Furmanite Corp was incorporated in Delaware on January 23, 1953. It provides specialized technical services. The Company together with its subsidiaries conducts business under two operating segments; Technical Services and Engineering & Project Solutions. Technical Services provides specialized technical services, including on-line, off-line and other services. On-line services include leak sealing, hot tapping, line stopping, line isolation, composite repair, valve testing and certain non-destructive testing and inspection services, while off-line services include on-site machining, heat treatment, bolting, valve repair and other non-destructive testing and inspection services. Other services include smart shim services, concrete repair, engineering services, valves and other products and manufacturing. These services and products are provided mainly to electric power generating plants, the petroleum industry, which includes refineries and off-shore drilling rigs, chemical plants and other process industries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent Company, Furmanite Worldwide, Inc. and its domestic and international subsidiaries and affiliates. The Engineering & Project Solutions operating segment, which includes Furmanite Technical Solutions, provides project planning, professional engineering, downstream non-destructive testing and inspection, construction management, mechanical integrity, field support, quality assurance and plant asset management services, as well as certain other inspection and project management services. Customers include refining and petrochemical operators as well as maintenance, and engineering and construction contractors servicing the downstream and midstream oil and gas markets, all of which are in the Americas. The Company currently operates over 30 offices in the United States. The Company competes against large and well established national and international companies as well as regional and local companies. It also competes with the in-house maintenance departments of customers or potential customers. Many aspects of the Company's operations are subject to governmental regulation.
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