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Global Food and Ingredients (TSXV:PEAS) Interest Coverage : 0.84 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Global Food and Ingredients 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. Global Food and Ingredients's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was C$0.62 Mil. Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was C$-0.74 Mil. Global Food and Ingredients's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.84. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


TSXV:PEAS's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Industry Median: 8.4
* 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.


Global Food and Ingredients Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Global Food and Ingredients'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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Global Food and Ingredients Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Coverage

For the Farm Products subindustry, Global Food and Ingredients'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.


Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Coverage falls into.



Global Food and Ingredients 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.

Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023, Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Expense was C$-2.39 Mil. Its Operating Income was C$-5.39 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$15.61 Mil.

Global Food and Ingredients did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Global Food and Ingredients's Interest Expense was C$-0.74 Mil. Its Operating Income was C$0.62 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was C$14.41 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*0.616/-0.735
=0.84

* 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.


Global Food and Ingredients  (TSXV:PEAS) 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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Global Food and Ingredients (TSXV:PEAS) Business Description

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Address
43 Colborne Street, Suite 400, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5E 1E3
Global Food and Ingredients Inc is a plant-based food and ingredients company, focused on pulses and specialty crops chain for peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas and other high protein specialty crops. The Company supplies premium plant-based high protein ingredients to customers around the world and distributes truckload and less-than truckload of bagged product directly to food processing companies, foodservice companies and institutional buyers (educational institutions, healthcare facilities, correctional facilities, etc.) in North America.

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