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Medical Facilities (Medical Facilities) Interest Coverage : 2.02 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Medical Facilities 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. Medical Facilities's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $17.4 Mil. Medical Facilities's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-8.6 Mil. Medical Facilities's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.02. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

MFCSF' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.57   Med: 4.31   Max: 6.1
Current: 3.09


MFCSF's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
72.17% of 406 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 8.445 vs MFCSF: 3.09

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


Medical Facilities Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Medical Facilities'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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Medical Facilities Interest Coverage Chart

Medical Facilities Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Medical Facilities Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.81 2.87 1.93 10.91 2.02

Competitive Comparison of Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Medical Facilities'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.


Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage falls into.



Medical Facilities 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.

Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Medical Facilities's Interest Expense was $-16.5 Mil. Its Operating Income was $67.1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $93.3 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*67.109/-16.503
=4.07

Medical Facilities's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Medical Facilities's Interest Expense was $-8.6 Mil. Its Operating Income was $17.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $85.3 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*17.402/-8.635
=2.02

* 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.


Medical Facilities  (OTCPK:MFCSF) 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 .


Medical Facilities Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Medical Facilities (Medical Facilities) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4576 Yonge Street, Suite 701, Toronto, ON, CAN, M2N 6N4
Medical Facilities Corp owns a diverse portfolio of surgical facilities in the United States. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the company owns controlling interests in four specialty hospitals and six ambulatory surgery centers. The hospitals offer a range of non-emergency surgical, imaging, diagnostic and pain management procedures, and other ancillary services. Its key revenue source is from the facility service income. The corporation's operations are based in the United States.

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