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Gandhi Special Tubes (BOM:513108) Interest Coverage : 2,083.14 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Gandhi Special Tubes 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. Gandhi Special Tubes's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was ₹150 Mil. Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was ₹-0 Mil. Gandhi Special Tubes's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2,083.14. 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. Gandhi Special Tubes Ltd has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

BOM:513108' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 208.02   Med: 858.39   Max: 1982.16
Current: 644.02


BOM:513108's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
93.29% of 2281 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 13.77 vs BOM:513108: 644.02

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


Gandhi Special Tubes Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Gandhi Special Tubes'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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Gandhi Special Tubes Interest Coverage Chart

Gandhi Special Tubes Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Interest Coverage
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Gandhi Special Tubes Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 - 676.30 495.54 443.46 2,083.14

Competitive Comparison of Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage

For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Gandhi Special Tubes'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.


Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage falls into.



Gandhi Special Tubes 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.

Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2024, Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Expense was ₹-1 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₹611 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₹2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*610.532/-0.948
=644.02

Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Gandhi Special Tubes's Interest Expense was ₹-0 Mil. Its Operating Income was ₹150 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was ₹2 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*149.986/-0.072
=2,083.14

* 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.


Gandhi Special Tubes  (BOM:513108) 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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Gandhi Special Tubes (BOM:513108) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
55 Hughes Road, Next to Dharam Palace, 201-204, Plaza, 2nd Floor, Mumbai, MH, IND, 400007
Gandhi Special Tubes Ltd manufactures and markets welded and seamless steel tubes of different sizes and specifications, and cold-formed coupling nuts. The company is involved in manufacturing automobile components, cold-formed tube nuts for fuel injection tube assemblies, hydraulic and other tube assemblies. Its products include Welded Tubes, Seamless Tubes, Wind Power, and Cold Formed Nuts. Products of the firm are supplied to the original equipment manufacturers of the automotive sector, farm equipment manufacturers, construction equipment manufacturers, refrigerator manufacturers, and other engineering industries. It also operates in the power sector through windmills installed in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

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