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SMC (Summit Midstream) Interest Coverage : 0.83 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Summit Midstream 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. Summit Midstream's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $18.6 Mil. Summit Midstream's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $-22.5 Mil. Summit Midstream's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.83. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Summit Midstream Corps earnings cannot cover its interest expense. If the situation continues, the company may have to issue more debt.

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

SMC' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.44   Med: 1.14   Max: 2.46
Current: 0.55


SMC's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
97.07% of 716 companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 5.88 vs SMC: 0.55

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


Summit Midstream Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Summit Midstream'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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Summit Midstream Interest Coverage Chart

Summit Midstream Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.88 1.02 0.44 0.57 0.50

Summit Midstream Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 0.56 0.32 0.53 0.61 0.83

Competitive Comparison of Summit Midstream's Interest Coverage

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Summit Midstream'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.


Summit Midstream's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Summit Midstream's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Summit Midstream's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Summit Midstream 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.

Summit Midstream'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, Summit Midstream's Interest Expense was $-115.4 Mil. Its Operating Income was $57.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $977.0 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*57.446/-115.446
=0.50

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, Summit Midstream's Interest Expense was $-22.5 Mil. Its Operating Income was $18.6 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,067.2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=-1*18.616/-22.537
=0.83

* 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.


Summit Midstream  (NYSE:SMC) 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 .


Summit Midstream Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Summit Midstream Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
910 Louisiana Street, Suite 4200, Houston, TX, USA, 77002
Summit Midstream Corp is a value-driven corporation focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets strategically located in unconventional resource basins, shale formations, in the continental U.S. It currently operates natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering systems in four unconventional resource basins: the Williston Basin in North Dakota, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations; the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; the Fort Worth Basin in Texas, which includes the Barnett Shale formation; and the Piceance Basin in Colorado, which includes the liquids-rich Mesaverde formation as well as the emerging Mancos and Niobrara Shale formations.
Executives
J Heath Deneke director, officer: See remarks below. 700 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 2550, HOUSTON TX 77002
Jerry L Peters director, other: See Remarks 1811 AKSARBEN DRIVE, OMAHA NE 68106
James David Johnston officer: See remarks below. 910 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 4200, HOUSTON TX 77002
Rommel M. Oates director, other: See Remarks. 910 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 4200, HOUSTON TX 77002
William J. Mault officer: See remarks below. 910 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 4200, HOUSTON TX 77002
Matthew B. Sicinski officer: See remarks below. 910 LOUISIANA STREET, SUITE 4200, HOUSTON TX 77002
James J Cleary director, other: See Remarks. 12 E. 49TH STREET, 39TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10017
Robert Joseph Mcnally director, other: See Remarks. 625 LIBERTY AVENUE, SUITE 1700, C/O EQT CORPORATION, PITTSBURGH PA 15222
Marguerite Woung-chapman director, other: See Remarks. 1001 LOUISIANA, HOUSTON TX 77002
Christopher M Leininger director, other: See Remarks. 11943 EL CAMINO REAL, SUITE 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Francesco Ciabatti director, other: See Remarks. 51 JOHN F. KENNEDY PARKWAY, SUITE 200, SHORT HILLS NJ 07078
James Lee Jacobe director, other: See Remarks. 1790 HUGHES LANDING BLVD., SUITE 500, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Energy Capital Partners Ii (summit Co-invest), Lp director, 10 percent owner C/O ENERGY CAPITAL PARTNERS II, 51 JOHN F. KENNEDY PARKWAY, SUITE 200, SHORT HILLS NJ 07078
Energy Capital Partners Ii-c (summit Ip), Lp director, 10 percent owner 51 JOHN F. KENNEDY PARKWAY, SUITE 1250, SHORT HILLS NJ 07078
Energy Capital Partners Ii-b Ip, Lp director, 10 percent owner 51 JOHN F. KENNEDY PARKWAY, SUITE 1250, SHORT HILLS NJ 07078