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Great Southern Copper (LSE:GSCU) Interest Coverage : No Debt (1) (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Great Southern Copper 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. Great Southern Copper's Operating Income for the six months ended in Sep. 2024 was £-0.77 Mil. Great Southern Copper's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2024 was £0.00 Mil. Great Southern Copper has no debt. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Great Southern Copper PLC has no debt.

(1) 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.

The historical rank and industry rank for Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:GSCU' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: No Debt   Med: No Debt   Max: No Debt
Current: No Debt


LSE:GSCU's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
99.77% of 1324 companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: No Debt vs LSE:GSCU: No Debt

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


Great Southern Copper Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Great Southern Copper'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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Great Southern Copper Interest Coverage Chart

Great Southern Copper Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Interest Coverage
No Debt No Debt No Debt No Debt

Great Southern Copper Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24 Sep24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial No Debt No Debt No Debt No Debt No Debt

Competitive Comparison of Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage

For the Copper subindustry, Great Southern Copper'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.


Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Great Southern Copper 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.

Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024, Great Southern Copper's Interest Expense was £0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was £-1.69 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £0.00 Mil.

Great Southern Copper had no debt (1).

Great Southern Copper's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Sep. 2024, Great Southern Copper's Interest Expense was £0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was £-0.77 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £0.00 Mil.

Great Southern Copper had no debt (1).

* 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.


Great Southern Copper  (LSE:GSCU) 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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Great Southern Copper Business Description

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Address
London Wall, Salisbury House, London, GBR, EC2M 5PS
Great Southern Copper PLC is a copper exploration company that aims to generate shareholder value through the successful exploration and discovery of large-scale porphyry copper-gold deposits from its projects located in the underexplored coastal copper belt of northern Chile. The Group has two reportable segments, exploration and corporate. It has two main project sites based on its current license portfolio, San Lorenzo, Especularita, and Monti Lithium located in Chile.

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