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Stella-Jones (Stella-Jones) Interest Coverage : 4.24 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Stella-Jones 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. Stella-Jones's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $66 Mil. Stella-Jones's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-16 Mil. Stella-Jones's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.24. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

STLJF' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 7.34   Med: 11.44   Max: 14.17
Current: 7.34


STLJF's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
54.46% of 202 companies
in the Forest Products industry
Industry Median: 6.175 vs STLJF: 7.34

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


Stella-Jones Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Stella-Jones'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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Stella-Jones Interest Coverage Chart

Stella-Jones Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 10.08 12.36 14.17 10.88 7.34

Stella-Jones Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 5.55 6.79 9.31 9.76 4.24

Competitive Comparison of Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage

For the Lumber & Wood Production subindustry, Stella-Jones'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.


Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage falls into.



Stella-Jones 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.

Stella-Jones'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, Stella-Jones's Interest Expense was $-51 Mil. Its Operating Income was $372 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,085 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*371.944/-50.686
=7.34

Stella-Jones's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Stella-Jones's Interest Expense was $-16 Mil. Its Operating Income was $66 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,085 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*66.339/-15.653
=4.24

* 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.


Stella-Jones  (OTCPK:STLJF) 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 .


Stella-Jones Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Stella-Jones (Stella-Jones) Business Description

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Address
3100 de la Cote-Vertu Boulevard, Suite 300, Saint-Laurent, QC, CAN, H4R 2J8
Stella-Jones Inc produces and sells lumber and wood products. The company operates in two segments: Pressure-treated wood, which includes utility poles, railway ties, residential lumber, and industrial products; and Logs & Lumber segment comprises of the sales of logs harvested in the course of the company's procurement process that is determined to be unsuitable for use as utility poles, it also includes the sale of excess lumber to local home-building markets. The vast majority of its revenue comes from the Pressure-treated wood segment. Its geographical segments are the United States and Canada, of which the majority of its revenue is derived from the United States.

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