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Agenus (Agenus) Interest Coverage

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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. Agenus's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-4.4 Mil. Agenus's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-44.2 Mil. did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


AGEN's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 135.52
* 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.


Agenus Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Agenus'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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Agenus Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
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Agenus Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Agenus'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.


Agenus Interest Coverage Distribution

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

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



Agenus 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.

Agenus'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, Agenus's Interest Expense was $-97.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-160.1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $75.3 Mil.

Agenus did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Agenus's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Agenus's Interest Expense was $-44.2 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-4.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $75.3 Mil.

Agenus did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

* 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.


Agenus  (NAS:AGEN) 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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Agenus (Agenus) Business Description

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Address
3 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA, USA, 02421
Agenus Inc is an American clinical-stage company with a pipeline of therapies designed to activate the body's immune system to fight cancer and infections, including immune-modulatory antibodies, adoptive cell therapies through its subsidiary MiNK Therapeutics Inc. and vaccine adjuvants through its subsidiary SaponiQx Inc. This robust product pipeline is supported by company's in-house capabilities, including current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) manufacturing and a clinical operations platform. The company's antibody candidates are botensilimab (a proprietary next-generation Fc-engineered CTLA-4 antibody, also known as AGEN1811) and balstilimab (a PD-1 antibody).
Executives
Ulf Wiinberg director
Steven J O'day officer: Chief Medical Officer 2344 BANYAN DRIVE, LOS ANGELES CA 90049
Garo H Armen officer: Chairman & CEO 3 FORBES ROAD, LEXINGTON MA 02421
Christine M Klaskin officer: VP Finance 3 FORBES ROAD, LEXINGTON MA 02421
Adam Krauss officer: Chief Legal Officer 139 GRANIT STREET, MEDFIELD MA 02052
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Jennifer Buell officer: Chief Operating Officer 3 FORBES ROAD, LEXINGTON MA 02421
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