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Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL) Interest Coverage : 13.15 (As of Jun. 2024)


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What is Australian Clinical Labs 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. Australian Clinical Labs's Operating Income for the six months ended in Jun. 2024 was A$31.9 Mil. Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2024 was A$-2.4 Mil. Australian Clinical Labs's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 was 13.15. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

ASX:ACL' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 9.62   Med: 13.1   Max: 199.91
Current: 11.51


ASX:ACL's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
53.06% of 98 companies
in the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry
Industry Median: 12.02 vs ASX:ACL: 11.51

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


Australian Clinical Labs Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Australian Clinical Labs'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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Australian Clinical Labs Interest Coverage Chart

Australian Clinical Labs Annual Data
Trend Dec20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23 Jun24
Interest Coverage
N/A 9.62 199.91 14.68 11.51

Australian Clinical Labs Semi-Annual Data
Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial 133.29 35.23 4.75 9.87 13.15

Competitive Comparison of Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage

For the Diagnostics & Research subindustry, Australian Clinical Labs'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.


Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Medical Diagnostics & Research Industry

For the Medical Diagnostics & Research industry and Healthcare sector, Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage falls into.



Australian Clinical Labs 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.

Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2024, Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Expense was A$-4.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was A$55.9 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was A$204.2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Jun. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Jun. 2024 )
=-1*55.912/-4.857
=11.51

Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Jun. 2024, Australian Clinical Labs's Interest Expense was A$-2.4 Mil. Its Operating Income was A$31.9 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was A$204.2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Jun. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Jun. 2024 )
=-1*31.937/-2.428
=13.15

* 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.


Australian Clinical Labs  (ASX:ACL) 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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Australian Clinical Labs Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1868-1892 Dandenong Road, Clayton, VIC, AUS, 3168
Australian Clinical Labs, or ACL, is Australia's third-largest private pathology provider. ACL earns almost its entire group revenue from pathology services in Australia, which are mostly earned via the publicly funded health Medicare system. ACL is well-established in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory.

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