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Firefly AB (OSTO:FIRE) Interest Coverage : No Debt (1) (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Firefly AB 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. Firefly AB's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was kr17.0 Mil. Firefly AB's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was kr0.0 Mil. Firefly AB has no debt. 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. Firefly AB has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

(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 Firefly AB's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

OSTO:FIRE' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 20.1   Med: 250.14   Max: 5719
Current: 123.98


OSTO:FIRE's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
88.03% of 1262 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 7.095 vs OSTO:FIRE: 123.98

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


Firefly AB Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Firefly AB'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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Firefly AB Interest Coverage Chart

Firefly AB Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 119.11 540.02 5,719.00 510.92 313.17

Firefly AB 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 No Debt No Debt 43.30 N/A No Debt

Competitive Comparison of Firefly AB's Interest Coverage

For the Building Products & Equipment subindustry, Firefly AB'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.


Firefly AB's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Firefly AB's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Firefly AB's Interest Coverage falls into.



Firefly AB 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.

Firefly AB'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, Firefly AB's Interest Expense was kr-0.2 Mil. Its Operating Income was kr58.3 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was kr1.3 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*58.25/-0.186
=313.17

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Firefly AB's Interest Expense was kr0.0 Mil. Its Operating Income was kr17.0 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was kr0.0 Mil.

Firefly AB 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.


Firefly AB  (OSTO:FIRE) 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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Firefly AB (OSTO:FIRE) Business Description

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Address
Heliosgatan 3, Stockholm, SWE, 120 30
Firefly AB is a supplier of spark detection, fire and dust explosion protection systems in Sweden. The company develops, manufactures and sells high-tech systems, which detect and minimise the risk of fires and dust explosions. It has two business areas: Industrial applications and Infra systems. Industrial applications include customized fire prevention systems, which monitor industrial processes in areas such as tissue, food, woodworking, bioenergy, and recycling. The business area of Infra systems includes early fire detection in subway-, train-, road or cable tunnel systems by means of multiple-gas detection.

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