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GN Store Nord A/S (GN Store Nord A/S) Interest Coverage : 1.54 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is GN Store Nord A/S 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. GN Store Nord A/S's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $26 Mil. GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-17 Mil. GN Store Nord A/S's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.54. 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. GN Store Nord A/S interest coverage is 1.76, which is low.

The historical rank and industry rank for GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

GNNDY' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.76   Med: 24.49   Max: 32.57
Current: 1.76


GNNDY's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
91.73% of 423 companies
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry
Industry Median: 19.77 vs GNNDY: 1.76

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


GN Store Nord A/S Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for GN Store Nord A/S'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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GN Store Nord A/S Interest Coverage Chart

GN Store Nord A/S 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 18.22 23.99 26.30 6.02 2.48

GN Store Nord A/S 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 N/A 0.57 1.78 3.64 1.54

Competitive Comparison of GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Devices subindustry, GN Store Nord A/S'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.


GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage falls into.



GN Store Nord A/S 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.

GN Store Nord A/S'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, GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Expense was $-48 Mil. Its Operating Income was $118 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $547 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*118.219/-47.697
=2.48

GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, GN Store Nord A/S's Interest Expense was $-17 Mil. Its Operating Income was $26 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $547 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*25.751/-16.679
=1.54

* 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.


GN Store Nord A/S  (OTCPK:GNNDY) 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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GN Store Nord A/S (GN Store Nord A/S) Business Description

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Lautrupbjerg 7, Ballerup, DNK, 2750
GN Store Nord is a Danish company offering medical and audio solutions. The group consists of two businesses: audio (about 62% of sales) and hearing (38%). GN Hearing offers hearing aids, competing globally with Sonova, Demant, Starkey, and WS Audiology (previously Sivantos and Widex). GN Audio provides headsets and speakerphones to the enterprise market (contact centers and offices), as well as to the consumer market, and recently acquired SteelSeries in the gaming market. The company has positioned itself as one of the main players in the Unified Communication-enabled headsets market. The firm's premium brands are Resound in hearing and Jabra in headsets.

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