FTEK (Fuel Tech) Interest Coverage: N/A (As of Mar. 2026)


FTEK Fuel Tech Inc FTEK
57 GF Score
Price $2.15
GF Value $1.13
Valuation Significantly Overvalued
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What is Fuel Tech 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. Fuel Tech's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2026 was $-1.60 Mil. Fuel Tech's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2026 was $0.00 Mil. GuruFocus does not calculate 's interest coverage with the available data. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Fuel Tech Inc has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

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


FTEK's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 14.8
* 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.

Fuel Tech  (NAS:FTEK) 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 .

Fuel Tech Interest Coverage Related Terms

Fuel Tech Interest Coverage Historical Data

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The historical data trend for Fuel Tech'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.

Fuel Tech Interest Coverage Chart

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FTEK vs BCHT, SCWO, CLIR: Interest Coverage Comparison

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Fuel Tech'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.

Fuel Tech Interest Coverage vs Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Fuel Tech's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Fuel Tech's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Fuel Tech 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.

Fuel Tech's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2025 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2025, Fuel Tech's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-3.68 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.49 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Fuel Tech's interest coverage with the available data.

Fuel Tech's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2026 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2026, Fuel Tech's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-1.60 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.47 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Fuel Tech's interest coverage with the available data.

* 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.

Is Fuel Tech (FTEK) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Fuel Tech stock appears to be overvalued. The current stock price of $2.15 is trading 90.3% above its estimated GF Value™ of $1.13. GuruFocus considers Fuel Tech to be Significantly Overvalued.

Key valuation signals for FTEK:

  • Interest Coverage: N/A
  • GF Value™: $1.13 vs. price of $2.15 (90.3% above fair value)
  • GF Score™: 57/100 with 3 warning signs

No single metric tells the full story. See the FTEK stock analysis page for a complete view including 30-year financials, guru trades, and insider activity.

Fuel Tech Business Description

Other Exchanges FUE1:Germany
Address 27601 Bella Vista Parkway, Warrenville, IL, USA, 60555-1617
Fuel Tech Inc is a technology provider of boiler optimization, efficiency improvement, and air pollution reduction to utility and industrial customers. The company operates in two segments, Air Pollution Control and Fuel Chem. The Air Pollution Control technology segment includes technologies to reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other stationary combustion sources. The Fuel Chem technology segment uses chemical processes in combination with Computational Fluid Dynamics and Chemical Kinetics Modeling for boiler modeling for the control of slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity and other sulfur trioxide-related issues in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals into the furnace using TIFI Targeted In-Furnace Injection technology.
57GF Score

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