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Advanced Micro Devices (Advanced Micro Devices) Interest Coverage : 12.67 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Advanced Micro Devices 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. Advanced Micro Devices's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $342 Mil. Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-27 Mil. Advanced Micro Devices's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 12.67. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

AMD' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.84   Med: 5.25   Max: 107.29
Current: 3.78


AMD's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
78.65% of 623 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 20.41 vs AMD: 3.78

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


Advanced Micro Devices Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Micro Devices'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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Advanced Micro Devices Interest Coverage Chart

Advanced Micro Devices Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Advanced Micro Devices Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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Competitive Comparison of Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Coverage

For the Semiconductors subindustry, Advanced Micro Devices'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.


Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Coverage falls into.



Advanced Micro Devices 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.

Advanced Micro Devices'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, Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Expense was $-106 Mil. Its Operating Income was $401 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,252 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*401/-106
=3.78

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Advanced Micro Devices's Interest Expense was $-27 Mil. Its Operating Income was $342 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,252 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*342/-27
=12.67

* 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.


Advanced Micro Devices  (NAS:AMD) 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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Advanced Micro Devices (Advanced Micro Devices) Business Description

Address
2485 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 95054
Advanced Micro Devices designs a variety of digital semiconductors for markets such as PCs, gaming consoles, data centers, industrial, and automotive applications, among others. AMD's traditional strength was in central processing units, CPUs, and graphics processing units, or GPUs, used in PCs and data centers. Additionally, the firm supplies the chips found in prominent game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox. In 2022, the firm acquired field-programmable gate array, or FPGA, leader Xilinx to diversify its business and augment its opportunities in key end markets such as the data center and automotive.
Executives
Darla M Smith other: Chief Accounting Officer 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Lisa T Su officer: SVP, GM Global Business Units C/O ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Paul Darren Grasby officer: SVP & CSO, President EMEA 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Philip Guido officer: EVP & Chief Commercial Officer 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Mark D Papermaster officer: SVP & Chief Technology Officer ONE AMD PLACE, SUNNYVALE CA 94088
Victor Peng officer: President, AECG MIPS TECHNOLOGIES INC, 1225 CHARLESTON ROAD, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043
Harry A Wolin officer: SVP & GC ONE AMD PLACE, SUNNYVALE CA 94088
Forrest Eugene Norrod officer: SVP & GM EESC 9507 GLENLAKE DRIVE, AUSTIN TX 78730
Jack M Huynh officer: SVP & GM, Computing & Graphics 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Devinder Kumar officer: SVP, CFO & Treasurer ONE AMD PLACE, MS 68, SUNNYVALE CA 94088
Rick Bergman other: SR VP & GM GPG C/O ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Jean X. Hu officer: EVP, CFO and Treasurer 2485 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 95054
Jon A Olson director 2100 LOGIC DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95124
Elizabeth W Vanderslice director C/O XILINX INC, 2100 LOGIC DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95124
John Edward Caldwell director ONE AMD PLACE, MS 68, SUNNYVALE CA 94088