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Holmen AB (OSTO:HOLM A) Interest Coverage : 40.96 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Holmen AB 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. Holmen AB's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was kr942 Mil. Holmen AB's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was kr-23 Mil. Holmen AB's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 40.96. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

OSTO:HOLM A' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 11.87   Med: 54.31   Max: 232.4
Current: 40.53


OSTO:HOLM A's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
84.08% of 201 companies
in the Forest Products industry
Industry Median: 6.09 vs OSTO:HOLM A: 40.53

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


Holmen AB Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Holmen AB'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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Holmen AB Interest Coverage Chart

Holmen AB Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Holmen AB 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 66.54 59.89 44.81 23.07 40.96

Competitive Comparison of Holmen AB's Interest Coverage

For the Paper & Paper Products subindustry, Holmen AB'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.


Holmen AB's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Forest Products Industry

For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Holmen AB's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Holmen AB's Interest Coverage falls into.



Holmen AB 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.

Holmen AB'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, Holmen AB's Interest Expense was kr-100 Mil. Its Operating Income was kr4,679 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was kr2,060 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*4679/-100
=46.79

Holmen AB's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Holmen AB's Interest Expense was kr-23 Mil. Its Operating Income was kr942 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was kr158 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*942/-23
=40.96

* 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.


Holmen AB  (OSTO:HOLM A) 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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Holmen AB (OSTO:HOLM A) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Strandvagen 1, P.O. Box 5407, Stockholm, SWE, SE-114 84
Holmen AB produces and sells timber, wood products, a variety of paper products, and electricity generated through renewable energy sources. The company organizes itself into five segments based on product type: Forest, Paperboard, Paper, Wood Products, and Renewable Energy. The company's product portfolio includes logs, biofuel, paperboard for consumer packaging, paper for books, construction timber, and renewable energy from hydro and wind power. The company's customer segment is composed of printing firms, sawmills, pulp mills, paper mills, construction industry, and packaging industry, among others. The vast majority of revenue comes from the company's paper and paperboard segments combined, and it earns majoroty of its revenue in Europe.

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