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PLLTL (Piedmont Lithium) Interest Coverage : 0 (At Loss) (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Piedmont Lithium 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. Piedmont Lithium's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $-6.6 Mil. Piedmont Lithium's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $-0.6 Mil. did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


PLLTL's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: No Debt
* 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.


Piedmont Lithium Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Piedmont Lithium'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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Piedmont Lithium Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Piedmont Lithium's Interest Coverage

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Piedmont Lithium'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.


Piedmont Lithium's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Piedmont Lithium's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Piedmont Lithium 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.

Piedmont Lithium's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024, Piedmont Lithium's Interest Expense was $-1.0 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-28.0 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4.5 Mil.

Piedmont Lithium did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Piedmont Lithium's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, Piedmont Lithium's Interest Expense was $-0.6 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-6.6 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4.2 Mil.

Piedmont Lithium did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

* 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.


Piedmont Lithium  (OTCPK:PLLTL) 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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Piedmont Lithium Business Description

Address
42 E Catawba Street, Belmont, NC, USA, 28012
Piedmont Lithium Inc, is a U.S. based, development-stage, multi-asset, integrated lithium business in support of a clean energy economy and U.S. and world-wide energy security. Its portfolio of wholly-owned projects includes Carolina Lithium, a proposed fully integrated spodumene ore-to-lithium hydroxide project in Gaston County, North Carolina, and Tennessee Lithium, a proposed merchant lithium hydroxide manufacturing plant in McMinn County, Tennessee.