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Bushveld Minerals (Bushveld Minerals) Interest Coverage : 0.28 (As of Jun. 2023)


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What is Bushveld Minerals 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. Bushveld Minerals's Operating Income for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was $2.1 Mil. Bushveld Minerals's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Jun. 2023 was $-7.3 Mil. Bushveld Minerals's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 was 0.28. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


BSHVF's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: No Debt
* 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.


Bushveld Minerals Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Bushveld Minerals'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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Bushveld Minerals Interest Coverage Chart

Bushveld Minerals Annual Data
Trend Feb13 Feb14 Feb15 Feb16 Feb17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22
Interest Coverage
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Bushveld Minerals Semi-Annual Data
Aug13 Feb14 Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23
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Competitive Comparison of Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Bushveld Minerals'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.


Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage falls into.



Bushveld Minerals 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.

Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022, Bushveld Minerals's Interest Expense was $-13.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was $3.8 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $42.0 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2022 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2022 )
=-1*3.831/-13.889
=0.28

Bushveld Minerals's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Jun. 2023, Bushveld Minerals's Interest Expense was $-7.3 Mil. Its Operating Income was $2.1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $43.9 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Jun. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Jun. 2023 )
=-1*2.059/-7.316
=0.28

* 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.


Bushveld Minerals  (OTCPK:BSHVF) 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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Bushveld Minerals (Bushveld Minerals) Business Description

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Address
9 Harries Road, Illovo, 2nd Floor, Building 3, Illovo Edge Office Park, Johannesburg, GT, ZAF, 2116
Bushveld Minerals Ltd is a low-cost, vertically integrated primary vanadium producer. Bushveld offers a compelling exposure to vanadium because it operates across both the upstream and downstream value chains through Bushveld Vanadium and Bushveld Energy. The company participates in the entire vanadium value chain through its three main pillars: vanadium mining and production, which consists of the Vametco and Vanchem operations; energy and mineral exploration activities for vanadium and coal exploration (together "Exploration"). Activities take place in South Africa (iron ore, vanadium and energy), Madagascar (coal), other African countries (energy project development) and global (battery investment, vanadium sales).

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