GGLT (Giant Group) Interest Coverage: N/A (As of Sep. 2004)

Giant Group  (OTCPK:GGLT) 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 .

Giant Group Interest Coverage Related Terms

The historical data trend for Giant Group'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.

Giant Group Interest Coverage Chart

Giant Group Annual Data
	Trend	Dec94	Dec95	Dec96	Dec97	Dec98	Dec99	Dec00	Dec01	Dec02	Dec03
Interest Coverage		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					No Debt	No Debt	No Debt	No Debt	No Debt

Giant Group Quarterly Data
	Dec99	Mar00	Jun00	Sep00	Dec00	Mar01	Jun01	Sep01	Dec01	Mar02	Jun02	Sep02	Dec02	Mar03	Jun03	Sep03	Dec03	Mar04	Jun04	Sep04
Interest Coverage	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															No Debt	No Debt	No Debt	N/A	N/A

GGLT vs BDVB, BURG, DBUB: Interest Coverage Comparison

For the Restaurants subindustry, Giant Group'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.

Giant Group Interest Coverage vs Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Giant Group's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Giant Group's Interest Coverage falls into.

Giant Group 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

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

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

Giant Group's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2003 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2003, Giant Group's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-2.36 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.

Giant Group's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2004 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Sep. 2004, Giant Group's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-0.20 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $7.20 Mil.

* 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.

Giant Group Business Description