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Casino Guichard-Perrachon (Casino Guichard-Perrachon) Interest Coverage : 0.85 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Casino Guichard-Perrachon 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. Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Operating Income for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $312 Mil. Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-369 Mil. Casino Guichard-Perrachon's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.85. 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. Casino Guichard-Perrachon SAs 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 Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

CGUSY' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.05   Med: 2.07   Max: 2.73
Current: 0.05


CGUSY's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
99.6% of 253 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 9.26 vs CGUSY: 0.05

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


Casino Guichard-Perrachon Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Casino Guichard-Perrachon'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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Casino Guichard-Perrachon Interest Coverage Chart

Casino Guichard-Perrachon Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.49 2.03 1.49 0.91 0.05

Casino Guichard-Perrachon Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 1.97 0.47 22.14 - 0.85

Competitive Comparison of Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Casino Guichard-Perrachon'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.


Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage falls into.



Casino Guichard-Perrachon 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.

Casino Guichard-Perrachon'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, Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Expense was $-781 Mil. Its Operating Income was $36 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,467 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*35.987/-780.807
=0.05

Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Dec. 2023, Casino Guichard-Perrachon's Interest Expense was $-369 Mil. Its Operating Income was $312 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,467 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*311.887/-368.593
=0.85

* 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.


Casino Guichard-Perrachon  (OTCPK:CGUSY) 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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Casino Guichard-Perrachon (Casino Guichard-Perrachon) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
No. 1, Cours Antoine Guichard, Saint-Etienne, FRA, 42008
Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA is a multiformat retailer with a focused exposure on France and Latin America. The Group's reportable segments are as follows: 1) France Retail segment comprising retail operating segments (mainly the Casino, Monoprix and Franprix sub-group banners); 2) GPA segment comprising the retail operations of GPA's food banners in Brazil; 3) Assaí segment comprising the retail operations of the Assaí food chain in Brazil; 4) Exito segment comprising the food retail operations of the Exito, Disco - Devoto and Libertad sub-group banners in Colombia, Uruguay and Argentina, respectively; 5) E-commerce segment comprising Cdiscount and the Cnova NV holding company.

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