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Fixstars (TSE:3687) Interest Coverage : 1,054.27 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Fixstars 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. Fixstars's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was 円655 Mil. Fixstars's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was 円-1 Mil. Fixstars's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1,054.27. 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. Fixstars Corp has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

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

TSE:3687' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 116.86   Med: 279.65   Max: 752.36
Current: 752.36


TSE:3687's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
81.47% of 1603 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 29.29 vs TSE:3687: 752.36

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


Fixstars Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Fixstars'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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Fixstars Interest Coverage Chart

Fixstars Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Interest Coverage
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Fixstars 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 495.72 405.39 941.32 727.59 1,054.27

Competitive Comparison of Fixstars's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Application subindustry, Fixstars'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.


Fixstars's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Fixstars's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Fixstars 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.

Fixstars'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, Fixstars's Interest Expense was 円-4 Mil. Its Operating Income was 円2,086 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was 円493 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Sep. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Sep. 2023 )
=-1*2086.357/-3.872
=538.83

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Fixstars's Interest Expense was 円-1 Mil. Its Operating Income was 円655 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was 円103 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*654.7/-0.621
=1,054.27

* 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.


Fixstars  (TSE:3687) 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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Fixstars (TSE:3687) Business Description

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1-11-1 Ohsaki, Shinagawa-Ku, Gate City Ohsaki West Tower 18Floor, Tokyo, JPN, 141-0032
Fixstars Corp is a Japan based software company. It offers multicore processors and application acceleration for the next generation of memory technology that delivers high speed IO as well as power savings. The solutions offered by the company are quantum computing, IoT, machine learning and FPGA. It operates in the business areas of Automotive, Flash storage, Industrial equipment, Finance, Healthcare and HPC. The company's products are M-cubed, Geometric Performance Primitives, FlashAir and Yellow Dog Appliance Server.

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