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Melon (XSGO:MELON) Interest Coverage : 1.26 (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Melon 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. Melon's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was CLP2,260 Mil. Melon's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was CLP-1,796 Mil. Melon's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 1.26. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


XSGO:MELON's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Building Materials industry.
Industry Median: 6.355
* 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.


Melon Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Melon'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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Melon Interest Coverage Chart

Melon Annual Data
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Interest Coverage
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Melon Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Melon's Interest Coverage

For the Building Materials subindustry, Melon'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.


Melon's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Building Materials Industry

For the Building Materials industry and Basic Materials sector, Melon's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Melon 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.

Melon'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, Melon's Interest Expense was CLP-8,873 Mil. Its Operating Income was CLP-1,092 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was CLP56,425 Mil.

Melon did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Melon's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2024, Melon's Interest Expense was CLP-1,796 Mil. Its Operating Income was CLP2,260 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was CLP56,425 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*2259.799/-1795.797
=1.26

* 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.


Melon  (XSGO:MELON) 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 .


Melon Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Melon Business Description

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Isidora Goyenechea No. 2800, 13th Floor, Las Condes, Santiago, CHL
Melon SA is a Chile-based building materials firm. It is engaged in manufacturing, marketing, and supplying cement, ready-mixed concrete, and aggregates to companies distributing construction materials, construction companies linked to the real estate, infrastructure, civil works and mining sectors, and concrete companies. Along with its subsidiaries, the company operates in the following segments; Cements and Aggregates. A majority of its revenue is generated from the Cements segment which includes the production, marketing, and distribution of different types of Portland and pozzolanic cement and ready-mixed concrete. The Aggregates segment represents the extraction, production, and distribution of aggregates and their products such as sand, gravel, and other products.

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