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Ceylon Cold Stores (COL:CCS.N0000) Financial Strength : 5 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Ceylon Cold Stores Financial Strength?

Ceylon Cold Stores has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Ceylon Cold Stores's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.12. Ceylon Cold Stores's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.20. As of today, Ceylon Cold Stores's Altman Z-Score is 2.73.


Competitive Comparison of Ceylon Cold Stores's Financial Strength

For the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic subindustry, Ceylon Cold Stores's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Ceylon Cold Stores's Financial Strength Distribution in the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic Industry

For the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Ceylon Cold Stores's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ceylon Cold Stores's Financial Strength falls into.



Ceylon Cold Stores Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

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

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:

Ceylon Cold Stores's Interest Expense for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was රු-744 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Mar. 2024 was රු3,069 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was රු13,854 Mil.

Ceylon Cold Stores's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*3069.305/-744.311
=4.12

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Ceylon Cold Stores's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Mar. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(14362.668 + 13853.518) / 144690.696
=0.20

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Ceylon Cold Stores has a Z-score of 2.73, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that Ceylon Cold Stores is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may faces bankrupcy risk.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 2.73 is in the grey area. This implies that the company is under some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.8, the company may face bankruptcy risk.

* 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.


Ceylon Cold Stores  (COL:CCS.N0000) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Ceylon Cold Stores has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.


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Ceylon Cold Stores (COL:CCS.N0000) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
No. 148, Vauxhall Street, Colombo, LKA, 02
Ceylon Cold Stores PLC is a Sri Lankan company that is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of beverages and frozen confectionery. The company operates through two business segments namely Manufacturing and Supermarkets. It generates maximum revenue from the Supermarkets segment. The company offers carbonated soft drinks, including ginger beer, cream, and apple soda, raspberry flavored Necto, orange-flavored orange crush and orange barley, lemonade, dry ginger ale, and toni, bottled drinking water, energy drinks, and ice creams. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from Sri Lanka.

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