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Capital Product Partners LP (Capital Product Partners LP) Interest Coverage

: 1.58 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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. Capital Product Partners LP's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $44.0 Mil. Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-27.9 Mil. Capital Product Partners LP's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.58. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

CPLP' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.55   Med: 2.63   Max: 3.66
Current: 1.55


CPLP's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
85.14% of 814 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 5.64 vs CPLP: 1.55

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


Capital Product Partners LP Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Capital Product Partners LP'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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Capital Product Partners LP Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.36 2.82 3.54 2.44 1.55

Capital Product Partners LP Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Interest Coverage 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.05 1.51 1.49 1.60 1.58

Competitive Comparison

For the Marine Shipping subindustry, Capital Product Partners LP'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.


Capital Product Partners LP Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Coverage falls into.



Capital Product Partners LP 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.

Capital Product Partners LP'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, Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Expense was $-104.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was $162.3 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,672.2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*162.333/-104.858
=1.55

Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Capital Product Partners LP's Interest Expense was $-27.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was $44.0 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,672.2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*44/-27.906
=1.58

* 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.


Capital Product Partners LP  (NAS:CPLP) 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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Capital Product Partners LP (Capital Product Partners LP) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
3 Iassonos Street, Piraeus, GRC, 18537
Capital Product Partners LP is in the seaborne transportation of cargoes, crude oil, gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, jet fuel and edible oils and dry cargo and containerized goods. Its vessels include; suezmax crude oil tankers, medium-range product tankers, neo panamax container carriers and capsize bulk carrier. Its vessels are capable of carrying a wide range of cargoes, including crude oil, refined oil products (such as gasoline, diesel, fuel oil and jet fuel), edible oils and certain chemicals, such as ethanol, as well as dry cargo and containerized goods under short-term voyage charters and medium to long-term time and bareboat charters.