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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co (TPE:8131) Interest Coverage : 201.34 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Formosa Advanced Technologies Co 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. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$294 Mil. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was NT$-1 Mil. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 201.34. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Ltd has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

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

TPE:8131' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 57.32   Med: 5197.14   Max: 1512935
Current: 60.3


TPE:8131's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
68.08% of 614 companies
in the Semiconductors industry
Industry Median: 20.035 vs TPE:8131: 60.30

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


Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Formosa Advanced Technologies Co'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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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Interest Coverage Chart

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Coverage

For the Semiconductor Equipment & Materials subindustry, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co'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.


Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Coverage falls into.



Formosa Advanced Technologies Co 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.

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co'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, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Expense was NT$-6 Mil. Its Operating Income was NT$337 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was NT$480 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*337.381/-5.886
=57.32

Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Formosa Advanced Technologies Co's Interest Expense was NT$-1 Mil. Its Operating Income was NT$294 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was NT$469 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*293.963/-1.46
=201.34

* 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.


Formosa Advanced Technologies Co  (TPE:8131) 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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Formosa Advanced Technologies Co (TPE:8131) Business Description

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Address
No.329, Ho-Nan Street, Touliu, TWN, 640
Formosa Advanced Technologies Co Ltd is a professional manufacturer of DRAM assembly, testing and module Turn-Key service in Taiwan. Its operations include the packaging, testing, processing, and research and development of integrated chips. The group's business activity is operated in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. It provides services applied in thin small-outline packages (TSOPs), quad flat packages (QFPs), ball grid array (BGA) packages, chip probing (CP) testing, solid-state disk (SSD) testing, system-in-package (SIP) testing, embedded multimedia card (eMMC) testing, as well as cutting, grinding and testing of light-emitting diodes (LED) wafers, among others.

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