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. Outerwall's
Operating Income
for the
three
months ended in Jun. 2016 was $72 Mil. Outerwall's Interest Expense for the
three
months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-10 Mil.
Outerwall's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 6.95.
The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.
The historical rank and industry rank for Outerwall's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:
OUTR's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Retail - Cyclical industry.
Industry Median: 7.87 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.
The historical data trend for Outerwall'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 Outerwall's Interest Coverage
For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Outerwall'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.
Outerwall's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry
For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Outerwall's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Outerwall's Interest Coverage falls into.
Outerwall 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 .
Outerwall Interest Coverage Related Terms
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Outerwall Inc was incorporated in Delaware on October 12, 1993. The Company is a provider of automated retail solutions offering convenient products and services that benefit consumers and drive incremental retail traffic and revenue for retailers. The Company's automated retail includes its redbox segment where consumers can rent or purchase movies from self-service kiosks and its Coin segment where consumers can convert their coin to cash or stored value products at coin-counting self-service kiosks. The redbox business faces competition from many other providers, including those using other distribution channels. The coinstar business faces competition from supermarkets, banks and other companies that purchase and operate coin-counting equipment from companies such as ScanCoin, Cummins-Allison Corporation and others. The ecoATM business faces competition from the companies whose primary business consists of the purchase of used electronics, online retailers and web sites such as Gazelle, as well as brick and mortar stores which buy back used electronics. The business of the Company is subject to federal, state, local and foreign laws and government regulation.
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