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Nova Minerals (ASX:NVA) Financial Strength : 6 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Nova Minerals Financial Strength?

Nova Minerals has the Financial Strength Rank of 6.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Nova Minerals did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. As of today, Nova Minerals's Altman Z-Score is 0.00.


Competitive Comparison of Nova Minerals's Financial Strength

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Nova Minerals's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Nova Minerals's Financial Strength Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Nova Minerals's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Nova Minerals's Financial Strength falls into.



Nova Minerals Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

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

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:

Nova Minerals's Interest Expense for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$-0.40 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$-1.74 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was A$0.00 Mil.

Nova Minerals's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Nova Minerals did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Nova Minerals's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Dec. 2023 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(6.912 + 0) / 0
=N/A

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Nova Minerals has a Z-score of 0.00, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

* 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.


Nova Minerals  (ASX:NVA) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Nova Minerals has the Financial Strength Rank of 6.


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Nova Minerals (ASX:NVA) Business Description

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Address
242 Hawthorn Road, Suite 5, Caulfield, VIC, AUS, 3161
Nova Minerals Ltd is a minerals explorer and developer focused on gold and lithium projects in North America. It has a diversified portfolio of projects across the US, Canada, and Australia. Its key projects include Nova's 6.2Moz Estelle Gold Project on Korbel Main and RPM in Alaska, which holds some of North America's largest gold deposits, and the company's majority-owned Snow Lakes Resources, a proposed zero carbon lithium spodumene project in Canada ideally located on rail access to the US Auto Alley. Nova aims to provide shareholders with diversification through exposure to base and precious metals and to capitalize on the growing demand for lithium-based energy storage.

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