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Innovate (Innovate) Interest Coverage : 0.16 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Innovate 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. Innovate's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $3 Mil. Innovate's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-17 Mil. Innovate's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.16. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Innovate Corps earnings cannot cover its interest expense. If the situation continues, the company may have to issue more debt.

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

VATE' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.02   Med: 0.33   Max: 0.99
Current: 0.48


VATE's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
96.45% of 1267 companies
in the Construction industry
Industry Median: 7.06 vs VATE: 0.48

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


Innovate Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Innovate'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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Innovate Interest Coverage Chart

Innovate Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.99 - - 0.26 0.39

Innovate 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 - 0.36 0.63 0.73 0.16

Competitive Comparison of Innovate's Interest Coverage

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Innovate'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.


Innovate's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Innovate's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Innovate 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.

Innovate'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, Innovate's Interest Expense was $-68 Mil. Its Operating Income was $27 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $728 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*26.5/-68.2
=0.39

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Innovate's Interest Expense was $-17 Mil. Its Operating Income was $3 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $688 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*2.8/-17.2
=0.16

* 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.


Innovate  (NYSE:VATE) 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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Innovate (Innovate) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
295 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY, USA, 10017
Innovate Corp is a diversified holding company that has a portfolio of subsidiaries in a variety of operating segments which are; The infrastructure segment is comprised of DBM Global Inc, a fully integrated industrial construction, structural steel, and facility maintenance provider that provides fabrication and erection of structural steel and heavy steel plate services, The Life Sciences segment is comprised of Pansend Life Sciences which seeks to develop products to treat early osteoarthritis of the knee and aesthetic and medical technologies for the skin, and Spectrum segment is comprised of HC2 Broadcasting Holdings Inc which operates over-the-air broadcasting stations across the United States.
Executives
Wayne Jr Barr director ANACOMP INC, 15378 AVENUE OF SCIENCE, SAN DIEGO CA 92128
Michael J. Sena officer: Chief Financial Officer 450 PARK AVENUE, 30TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Brian Steven Goldstein director 295 MADISON AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10017
Amy Marie Wilkinson director 295 MADISON AVENUE, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10017
Shelly Lombard director 44 MORSE AVENUE, BLOOMFIELD NJ 07003
Avram A Glazer director C/O WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP, 700 CROSSROADS BUILDING, ROCHESTER NY 14614
Suzi R Herbst officer: Chief Administrative Officer C/O HC2 HOLDINGS, INC., 450 PARK AVENUE, 30TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022
Joseph Anthony Ferraro officer: Chief Legal Officer & Corp Sec 56 EMILY ROAD, FAR HILLS FL 07931
Continental Ltc, Inc. 10 percent owner 11001 LAKELINE BLVD., STE. 120, AUSTIN TX 78717
Michael Gorzynski director, 10 percent owner 595 MADISON AVE, FLOOR 29, NEW YORK NY 10022
Continental General Insurance Co 10 percent owner 11001 LAKELINE BLVD., STE. 120, AUSTIN TX 78717
Continental Insurance Group, Ltd. 10 percent owner 11001 LAKELINE BLVD., STE. 120, AUSTIN TX 78717
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Rio Royal Llc 10 percent owner 595 MADISON AVENUE, 29TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10022