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Intercept Pharmaceuticals (Intercept Pharmaceuticals) Interest Coverage : 1.06 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Intercept Pharmaceuticals 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. Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Operating Income for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $1.6 Mil. Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Sep. 2023 was $-1.5 Mil. Intercept Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 1.06. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


ICPT's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 146.6
* 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.


Intercept Pharmaceuticals Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Intercept Pharmaceuticals'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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Intercept Pharmaceuticals Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Intercept Pharmaceuticals'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.


Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage falls into.



Intercept Pharmaceuticals 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.

Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022, Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense was $-18.8 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-68.2 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $223.1 Mil.

Intercept Pharmaceuticals did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Sep. 2023, Intercept Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense was $-1.5 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1.6 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $223.9 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*1.641/-1.549
=1.06

* 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.


Intercept Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:ICPT) 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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Intercept Pharmaceuticals (Intercept Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
305 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ, USA, 07960
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biotech company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapeutics to treat progressive non-viral liver diseases. Obeticholic acid, or OCA, is an agonist of the farnesoid X receptor. OCA was approved as Ocaliva to treat primary biliary cirrhosis in 2016 and is being developed for a variety of chronic liver diseases, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
Executives
Andrew Saik officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 640 LEE ROAD, CHESTERBROOK PA 19087
M Michelle Berrey officer: President, R&D and CMO 303A COLLEGE ROAD EAST, PRINCETON NJ 08450
Dagmar Rosa-bjorkeson director C/O BAXALTA INCORPORATED, 1200 LAKESIDE DRIVE, BANNOCKBURN IL 60015
Rocco Venezia officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 10 HUDSON YARDS, 37TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10001
Srinivas Akkaraju director 565 EVERETT AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94301
Lisa Defrancesco officer: SVP, IR & Corp. Affairs C/O INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 10 HUDSON YARDS, FLOOR 37, NEW YORK NY 10001
Linda M Richardson officer: EVP & Chief Commercial Officer 2505 MERIDIAN PKWY, SUITE 340, C/O CHIMERIX, INC., DURHAM NC 27713
Jared Freedberg officer: General Counsel and Secretary 300 THE AMERICAN ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS NJ 07950
Bryan Ball officer: Chief Quality Officer 300 THE AMERICAN ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS NJ 07950
Sandip Kapadia officer: CFO and Treasurer 450 WEST 15 STREET, SUITE 505, NEW YORK NY 10011
Jason Campagna officer: Chief Medical Officer C/O INTERCEPT PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 10 HUDSON YARDS, FLOOR 37, NEW YORK NY 10001
Paolo Fundaro director, 10 percent owner C/O GENEXTRA S.P.A.,, VIA G. DE GRASSI, 11, MILAN L6 20123
Francesco Micheli 10 percent owner C/O GENEXTRA S.P.A., VIA G. DE GRASSI, 11, MILAN L6 20124
Genextra S.p.a. 10 percent owner VIA G. DE GRASSI, 11, MILAN L6 20123
Keith Michael Gottesdiener director 900 FIFTH AVENUE, #8C, NEW YORK NY 10021

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