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SUGP (SU Group Holdings) Interest Coverage : 201.14 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is SU Group Holdings 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. SU Group Holdings's Operating Income for the six months ended in Mar. 2024 was $1.41 Mil. SU Group Holdings's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-0.01 Mil. SU Group Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 201.14. 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. SU Group Holdings Ltd has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

SUGP' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 17.45   Med: 100.64   Max: 205.14
Current: 150.44


SUGP's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
80.71% of 788 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 13.2 vs SUGP: 150.44

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


SU Group Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for SU Group Holdings'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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SU Group Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

SU Group Holdings Annual Data
Trend Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Interest Coverage
17.45 100.64 205.14

SU Group Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 Mar24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial 100.83 100.80 297.20 - 201.14

Competitive Comparison of SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Security & Protection Services subindustry, SU Group Holdings'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.


SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage falls into.



SU Group Holdings 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.

SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023, SU Group Holdings's Interest Expense was $-0.01 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1.44 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.01 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*1.436/-0.007
=205.14

SU Group Holdings's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Mar. 2024, SU Group Holdings's Interest Expense was $-0.01 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1.41 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.08 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*1.408/-0.007
=201.14

* 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.


SU Group Holdings  (NAS:SUGP) 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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SU Group Holdings Business Description

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Address
31 Hung To Road, Unit 01 – 03, 3rd Floor, Billion Trade Centre, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKG
SU Group Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries is an integrated security-related services company. The company has two reportable segments: security-related engineering services, and security guarding and screening services and related vocational training services. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the security-related engineering services segment.