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Paper Corea (XKRX:001020) Interest Coverage : 0.18 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Paper Corea 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. Paper Corea's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩452 Mil. Paper Corea's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩-2,488 Mil. Paper Corea's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.18. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

XKRX:001020' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.05   Med: 1.21   Max: 1.44
Current: 0.05


XKRX:001020's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
99.02% of 204 companies
in the Forest Products industry
Industry Median: 4.46 vs XKRX:001020: 0.05

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


Paper Corea Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Paper Corea'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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Paper Corea Interest Coverage Chart

Paper Corea 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 1.32 1.37 1.09 1.44 0.21

Paper Corea 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 0.82 0.69 - 0.10 0.18

Competitive Comparison of Paper Corea's Interest Coverage

For the Paper & Paper Products subindustry, Paper Corea'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.


Paper Corea's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Paper Corea's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Paper Corea's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Paper Corea 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.

Paper Corea'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, Paper Corea's Interest Expense was ₩-10,671 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩2,226 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩53,463 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*2226.166/-10671.062
=0.21

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, Paper Corea's Interest Expense was ₩-2,488 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩452 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩49,746 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=-1*451.566/-2487.674
=0.18

* 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.


Paper Corea  (XKRX:001020) 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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Paper Corea Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1245 Oehang-ro, Jeonbuk-do, Gunsan-si, KOR, 54003
Paper Corea Inc manufactures and sells paper products in South Korea. It offers paper for newsprints, which are used by newsprint companies and government offices; for telephone directories, comic books, publication, and various printed materials; and for printing assorted advertisement. The company also provides industrial papers, such as sack kraft papers for use in heavyweight and lightweight packaging; environmentally friendly products that are used for shopping bags, document envelopes and specialty papers used for tape base paper, transfer paper, steel process paper.

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