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China Fishery Group (China Fishery Group) Interest Coverage : 1.26 (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is China Fishery Group 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. China Fishery Group's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $13.8 Mil. China Fishery Group's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was $-11.0 Mil. China Fishery Group's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 was 1.26. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


CIFHY's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Industry Median: 8.395
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.

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


China Fishery Group Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for China Fishery Group'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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China Fishery Group Interest Coverage Chart

China Fishery Group Annual Data
Trend Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Sep09 Sep10 Sep11 Sep12 Sep13 Sep14
Interest Coverage
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China Fishery Group Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
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Competitive Comparison of China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, China Fishery Group'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.


China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage falls into.



China Fishery Group 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.

China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2014, China Fishery Group's Interest Expense was $-77.6 Mil. Its Operating Income was $146.3 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $908.5 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Sep. 2014 )/Interest Expense (A: Sep. 2014 )
=-1*146.259/-77.581
=1.89

China Fishery Group's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Jun. 2015, China Fishery Group's Interest Expense was $-11.0 Mil. Its Operating Income was $13.8 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $575.0 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Jun. 2015 )/Interest Expense (Q: Jun. 2015 )
=-1*13.793/-10.979
=1.26

* 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.


China Fishery Group  (OTCPK:CIFHY) 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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China Fishery Group (China Fishery Group) Business Description

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Address
188 Connaught Road West, Room 3312-3314, Hong Kong Plaza, Hong Kong, HKG
China Fishery Group Ltd is a Hong Kong-based industrial fishing company with access to fish in some of the fishing grounds, including the Anchovy fishery in Peru. Business activity of the firm is functioned through three reportable segments namely contract supply business, Peruvian fishmeal, and China fishery fleet. It offers fish products in various forms, such as frozen whole, headed and gutted, frozen fillets, and fish roe and milt for wholesalers and food processors, as well as sells fish meal and oil products for fish meal and oil distributors, and Omega-3 capsule manufacturers. Geographically, its business presence can be seen across the region of China, Europe, South America, Africa and Australia.

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