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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) Interest Coverage : 1.49 (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Symmetry Surgical 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. Symmetry Surgical's Operating Income for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €2.4 Mil. Symmetry Surgical's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €-1.6 Mil. Symmetry Surgical's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 was 1.49. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

FRA:RZV' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.59   Med: 2.44   Max: 13.27
Current: 0.59


FRA:RZV's Interest Coverage is not ranked
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 17.5 vs FRA:RZV: 0.59

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


Symmetry Surgical Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Symmetry Surgical'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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Symmetry Surgical Interest Coverage Chart

Symmetry Surgical Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
Interest Coverage
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Symmetry Surgical Quarterly Data
Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14
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Competitive Comparison of Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Symmetry Surgical'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.


Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage falls into.



Symmetry Surgical 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.

Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013, Symmetry Surgical's Interest Expense was €-12.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was €-20.7 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €121.5 Mil.

Symmetry Surgical did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Symmetry Surgical's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Sep. 2014, Symmetry Surgical's Interest Expense was €-1.6 Mil. Its Operating Income was €2.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €132.4 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2014 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2014 )
=-1*2.374/-1.592
=1.49

* 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.


Symmetry Surgical  (FRA:RZV) 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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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) Business Description

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Symmetry Medical, Inc., is a Delaware corporation incorporated on July 25, 1996. It is a source of medical device products. The Company provides medical device solutions, including surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, and sterilization cases and trays. The Company designs, develops and offers worldwide production and supply chain capabilities for these products to customers in the orthopedic industry and other medical device markets. It also manufactures specialized non-healthcare products, mainly in the aerospace industry. It operates in two reportable segments namely Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Solutions and Symmetry Surgical. Its main products produced in the OEM Solutions segment include: implants, including forged, cast and machined products for the global orthopedic device market; instruments used in the placement and removal of orthopedic implants and in other surgical procedures; cases, including plastic, metal and hybrid cases used to organize, secure and transport medical devices for orthopedic, endoscopy, dental and other surgical procedures; and other specialized products for the aerospace market. Symmetry Surgical is its new business segment. It arose from the integration of the Codman and Olsen Medical lines of surgical instruments with its Company's already existing hospital direct business, Specialty Surgical Instrumentation (SSI). Symmetry Surgical, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee offers reusable stainless steel and titanium surgical hand-held instruments and retractor systems, sterile disposable surgical products, and sterilization containers. These products are used in the surgical specialties of spine, general/obstetrics/gynecology, microsurgery/neurosurgery, orthopedics, and laparoscopy, cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgery in the hospital setting as well as surgery centers and in select physician offices. The Company's OEM Solutions segment has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia. The Company's subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations governing the emission, discharge, use, storage and disposal of hazardous materials and the remediation of contamination associated with the release of these materials at our facilities and at off-site disposal locations.

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