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Cosmax Nbt (XKRX:222040) Interest Coverage : 0.33 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Cosmax Nbt 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. Cosmax Nbt's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩871 Mil. Cosmax Nbt's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was ₩-2,635 Mil. Cosmax Nbt's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.33. 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. Cosmax Nbt Incs 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 Cosmax Nbt's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

XKRX:222040' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.29   Med: 3.19   Max: 19.03
Current: 0.91


XKRX:222040's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
93.55% of 1474 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 8.335 vs XKRX:222040: 0.91

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


Cosmax Nbt Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cosmax Nbt'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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Cosmax Nbt Interest Coverage Chart

Cosmax Nbt 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 - 1.22 0.29 1.02 0.86

Cosmax Nbt 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 0.20 1.14 0.87 1.25 0.33

Competitive Comparison of Cosmax Nbt's Interest Coverage

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Cosmax Nbt'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.


Cosmax Nbt's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Cosmax Nbt's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cosmax Nbt's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Cosmax Nbt 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.

Cosmax Nbt'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, Cosmax Nbt's Interest Expense was ₩-11,575 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩9,905 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩3,027 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*9904.53/-11574.72
=0.86

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, Cosmax Nbt's Interest Expense was ₩-2,635 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₩871 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₩4,545 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=-1*870.603/-2635.028
=0.33

* 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.


Cosmax Nbt  (XKRX:222040) 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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Cosmax Nbt Business Description

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Address
Teheran-ro 145, Gangnam-gu, 4/5/10th Floor, Woosin Building, Seoul, KOR, 06132
Cosmax Nbt Inc is a Korean company which is engaged in manufacturing of health functional food. The company researches and develops functional materials and provides it for manufacturing industry and circulation industry. It manufactures health functional foods which using the useful nutrients or functional ingredients to improve human's health and health-oriented foods through original development manufacturing (ODM) way and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) way under the brand name of OBM.

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