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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) Financial Strength : 5 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Financial Strength?

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.

Warning Sign:

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp displays poor financial strength. Usually, this is caused by too much debt for the company.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 15.30. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.80. As of today, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Altman Z-Score is 1.66.


Competitive Comparison of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Financial Strength

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Financial Strength Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Financial Strength falls into.



Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

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

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:

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Interest Expense for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-243 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was $3,726 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $53,404 Mil.

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*3725.666/-243.49
=15.30

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Dec. 2023 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(20654.584 + 53404.298) / 93131.02
=0.80

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone has a Z-score of 1.66, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 1.66 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* 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.


Nippon Telegraph & Telephone  (OTCPK:NTTYY) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.


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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5-1, Otemachi 1-Chome, Otemachi First Square, East Tower, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JPN, 100-8116
NTT owns NTT DoCoMo, the largest wireless operator in Japan, with 87.5 million subscribers. It also owns NTT East and NTT West, the two regional incumbent fixed-line operators in Japan, with about 12.1 million traditional fixed-line and 23.5 million broadband lines (around 72% of which are wholesaled). The firm also provides IT and communications systems integration via NTT Communications and 52.4%-owned NTT Data.

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