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Hollywood Bowl Group (LSE:BOWL) Financial Strength : 5 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Hollywood Bowl Group Financial Strength?

Hollywood Bowl Group 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.

Hollywood Bowl Group's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 4.22. Hollywood Bowl Group's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.93. As of today, Hollywood Bowl Group's Altman Z-Score is 3.12.


Competitive Comparison of Hollywood Bowl Group's Financial Strength

For the Leisure subindustry, Hollywood Bowl Group'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.


Hollywood Bowl Group's Financial Strength Distribution in the Travel & Leisure Industry

For the Travel & Leisure industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Hollywood Bowl Group's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Hollywood Bowl Group's Financial Strength falls into.



Hollywood Bowl Group 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:

Hollywood Bowl Group's Interest Expense for the months ended in Sep. 2023 was £-5.4 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Sep. 2023 was £22.8 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was £181.7 Mil.

Hollywood Bowl Group's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*22.838/-5.412
=4.22

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

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

Hollywood Bowl Group's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Sep. 2023 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(12.553 + 181.652) / 209.676
=0.93

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.

Hollywood Bowl Group has a Z-score of 3.12, indicating it is in Safe Zones. This implies the Z-Score is strong.

Good Sign:

Altman Z-score of 3.12 is strong.

* 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.


Hollywood Bowl Group  (LSE:BOWL) 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.

Hollywood Bowl Group has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.


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Hollywood Bowl Group (LSE:BOWL) Business Description

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Address
Cleveland Road, Focus 31, West Wing, Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, GBR, HP2 7BW
Hollywood Bowl Group PLC is a ten-pin bowling operator across the United Kingdom under the Hollywood Bowl, Splitsville and Puttstars brands. The company specializes in operating bowling centres, located on out of town multi-use leisure parks and large retail parks with all of the centres occupied by the company on a leasehold basis. The centres are designed to offer a complete family entertainment experience with each centre offering bowling lanes, on-site dining, licensed bars, and family games arcades. The company has two reporting segments, being the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres in the United Kingdom which generates the majority of the revenue, and the provision of ten-pin bowling and mini-golf centres and the installation of bowling equipment in Canada.

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