KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co (XKRX:051600) Interest Coverage : 58.87 (As of Mar. 2025)

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What is KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co 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. KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩7,386 Mil. KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩-125 Mil. KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 58.87. 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. KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Ltd has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

XKRX:051600' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 149.87 Med: 358.64 Max: 20506.66
Current: 278.13

XKRX:051600's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
91.42% of 1328 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 7.155 vs XKRX:051600: 278.13

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

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co'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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KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Interest Coverage Chart

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Annual Data

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366.39

166.43

149.87

245.31

298.55

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co 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															221.89	385.11	261.45	361.85	58.87

Competitive Comparison of KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Coverage

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co'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.

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Construction Industry

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KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co 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.

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co'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, KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Expense was ₩-700 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩208,926 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩2,256 Mil.

Interest Coverage	=	-1	*	Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )	/	Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
	=	-1	*	208926.184	/	-699.797
	=	298.55

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co's Interest Expense was ₩-125 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩7,386 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩5,170 Mil.

Interest Coverage	=	-1	*	Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )	/	Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2025 )
	=	-1	*	7386.35	/	-125.469
	=	58.87

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co (XKRX:051600) 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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KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Business Description

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Address

196, Geumgok-Dong, KPS, 196, Geumgok-Dong, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi, KOR, 463-726

Website

https://www.kps.co.kr

KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering Co Ltd Is a Korea-based company. It is involved in the business of power plant maintenance, transmission and distribution facility, overseas and providing professional services. It provides total maintenance services related to transmission and control such as construction, supervision, engineering, and safety diagnosis. The company has been operating and maintaining various domestic and overseas power generation facilities. Further, the group has established an efficiency-based R&D system designed to focus on research and development specific to the research organization.

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