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Victorian Plumbing Group (LSE:VIC) Interest Coverage : 53.00 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Victorian Plumbing Group 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. Victorian Plumbing Group's Operating Income for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £10.6 Mil. Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was £-0.2 Mil. Victorian Plumbing Group's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 53.00. 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. Victorian Plumbing Group PLC has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

The historical rank and industry rank for Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:VIC' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 12.5   Med: 51.34   Max: 79.67
Current: 53.67


LSE:VIC's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
81.34% of 761 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 7.6 vs LSE:VIC: 53.67

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


Victorian Plumbing Group Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Victorian Plumbing Group'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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Victorian Plumbing Group Interest Coverage Chart

Victorian Plumbing Group Annual Data
Trend Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 49.00 79.67 67.00 40.33 53.67

Victorian Plumbing Group Semi-Annual Data
Sep18 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 25.50 13.50 94.00 55.00 53.00

Competitive Comparison of Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage

For the Home Improvement Retail subindustry, Victorian Plumbing Group'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.


Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage falls into.



Victorian Plumbing Group 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.

Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023, Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Expense was £-0.3 Mil. Its Operating Income was £16.1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £3.8 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*16.1/-0.3
=53.67

Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Sep. 2023, Victorian Plumbing Group's Interest Expense was £-0.2 Mil. Its Operating Income was £10.6 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was £3.8 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*10.6/-0.2
=53.00

* 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.


Victorian Plumbing Group  (LSE:VIC) 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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Victorian Plumbing Group (LSE:VIC) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
22 Grimrod Place, Skelmersdale, GBR, WN8 9UU
Victorian Plumbing Group PLC is an online retailer of bathroom products and accessories, offering a one-stop-shop solution for the entire bathroom. It offers a wide range of over 24,000 products to business to customer and trade customers, with more than 125 brands across a wide spectrum of price points and it also design and develops exclusive new products in-house.

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