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Palomar Holdings (Palomar Holdings) Interest Coverage : 41.66 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Palomar 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 EBIT by its Interest Expense. Palomar Holdings's EBIT for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $34.3 Mil. Palomar Holdings's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.8 Mil. Palomar Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 41.66. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

PLMR' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.69   Med: 13.42   Max: 1429.45
Current: 28.46


PLMR's Interest Coverage is ranked better than
65.12% of 324 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 13.355 vs PLMR: 28.46

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


Palomar Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Palomar 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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Palomar Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

Palomar Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 17.93 0.69 1,429.45 78.38 28.45

Palomar Holdings Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
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 63.76 23.19 22.64 29.30 41.66

Competitive Comparison of Palomar Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Palomar 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.


Palomar Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Palomar Holdings's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Palomar 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 EBIT is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* EBIT /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and EBIT 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.

Palomar Holdings'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, Palomar Holdings's Interest Expense was $-3.8 Mil. Its EBIT was $107.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.0 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* EBIT (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*107.417/-3.775
=28.45

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Palomar Holdings's Interest Expense was $-0.8 Mil. Its EBIT was $34.3 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.0 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* EBIT (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*34.283/-0.823
=41.66

* 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.


Palomar Holdings  (NAS:PLMR) 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 .


Palomar Holdings Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Palomar Holdings (Palomar Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
7979 Ivanhoe Avenue, Suite 500, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92037
Palomar Holdings Inc is a United States-based company focused on the provision of specialty property insurance earthquake, wind, and flood insurance products. The company's core focus is on the residential and commercial earthquake markets in earthquake-exposed states such as California, Oregon, Washington, and states with exposure to the New Madrid Seismic Zone. It offers specialty property insurance products in the target markets to both individuals and businesses through multiple channels, including retail agents, program administrators, wholesale brokers, and in partnership with other insurance companies. Its products include Residential Earthquake, Commercial Earthquake, Specialty Homeowners, Inland Marine, Commercial All Risk, Hawaii Hurricane, Residential Flood and others.
Executives
T Christopher Uchida officer: Chief Financial Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Jon Christianson officer: Chief Operating Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Angela L. Grant officer: Chief Legal Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Michelle Antoinette Johnson officer: Senior VP, People & Talent 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Jonathan Knutzen officer: Chief Risk Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92121
Mac Armstrong director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
William Bold officer: Chief Strategy Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Heath A Fisher officer: President 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Martha Notaras director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Robert E Dowdell director
Daina Middleton director C/O MARIN SOFTWARE INCORPORATED, 123 MISSION STREET, 25TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Richard H Taketa director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Britt Morries officer: Chief Operating Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Andrew T Robinson officer: Chief Underwriting Officer 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Daryl Bradley director 7979 IVANHOE AVENUE, SUITE 500, LA JOLLA CA 92037