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Primech Holdings (Primech Holdings) Interest Coverage : 0.59 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Primech Holdings 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. Primech Holdings's Operating Income for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was $0.31 Mil. Primech Holdings's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was $-0.52 Mil. Primech Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.59. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

PMEC' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.2   Med: 16.07   Max: 28.5
Current: 0.2


PMEC's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
99% of 797 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 13.62 vs PMEC: 0.20

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


Primech Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Primech Holdings'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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Primech Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

Primech Holdings Annual Data
Trend Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Interest Coverage
3.64 28.50 - -

Primech Holdings Semi-Annual Data
Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial 3.26 - - - 0.59

Competitive Comparison of Primech Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Primech Holdings'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.


Primech Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Primech Holdings's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Primech Holdings's Interest Coverage falls into.



Primech Holdings 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.

Primech Holdings's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023, Primech Holdings's Interest Expense was $-0.72 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-1.70 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $8.74 Mil.

Primech Holdings did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

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

Here, for the six months ended in Sep. 2023, Primech Holdings's Interest Expense was $-0.52 Mil. Its Operating Income was $0.31 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $7.70 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*0.305/-0.521
=0.59

* 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.


Primech Holdings  (NAS:PMEC) 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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Primech Holdings (Primech Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
23 Ubi Crescent, Singapore, SGP, 408579
Primech Holdings Ltd is a technology-driven facilities services provider in the public and private sectors operating mainly in Singapore. The services offered by the company include Facilities services, Stewarding services, Cleaning services to offices, Cleaning services to homes, and Cleaning Supplies.

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