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Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL) Interest Coverage : No Debt (1) (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Satellos Bioscience 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. Satellos Bioscience's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was C$-8.26 Mil. Satellos Bioscience's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was C$0.00 Mil. Satellos Bioscience has no debt. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

(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 Satellos Bioscience's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


TSX:MSCL's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 144.99
* 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.


Satellos Bioscience Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Satellos Bioscience'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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Satellos Bioscience Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Satellos Bioscience's Interest Coverage

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Satellos Bioscience'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.


Satellos Bioscience's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Satellos Bioscience's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Satellos Bioscience's Interest Coverage falls into.



Satellos Bioscience 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.

Satellos Bioscience'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, Satellos Bioscience's Interest Expense was C$-0.18 Mil. Its Operating Income was C$-15.46 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$0.00 Mil.

Satellos Bioscience did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Satellos Bioscience's Interest Expense was C$0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was C$-8.26 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$0.00 Mil.

Satellos Bioscience 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.


Satellos Bioscience  (TSX:MSCL) 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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Satellos Bioscience (TSX:MSCL) Business Description

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65 Front Street East, Suite 201, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5E 1B5
Satellos Bioscience Inc is a regenerative medicine company dedicated to developing novel therapeutics that stimulate or restore muscle regeneration in severe disorders. Its lead program is focused on developing an oral therapeutic drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy that serves to correct this dysregulation which Satellos has identified as a root cause of the progressive nature of this disease.

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