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On a weighted-average basis, after allowing for capital expenditure, cashflow only just covers interest payments (see table).
But operating income covers interest expense 4 times.
It has $700 million in debt, and cash flow covers interest expenses only 1.5 times.
The company's currently throwing off cash at about a $42 million annual rate, which covers interest costs but not capital expenditures.
Among these, Anderson looks for rising interest coverage (or the multiple by which profit before interest and taxes covers interest expenses) and rising free cash flow, here defined as cash flow from operations minus capital expenditures.
It has already borrowed $4 billion — all that fiber doesn't come cheap — and its cash flow barely covers interest costs, says Aryeh Bourkoff, high-yield analyst at CIBC Oppenheimer.
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The latest mis-selling scandal covers interest-rate swaps and Horta-Osório said that the scandal had so far cost the bank £90m, which could rise on 1 March when the bank publishes its results for 2012.
Both plans sought to postpone debt payments, and to reduce them to cover interest only.
"The Treasury takes in more than enough money from taxpayers to cover interest payments on the national debt.
The administration has had to tap into the city budget to cover interest payments on the bonds.
The acquisition cost was actually $6.3 billion, because the partnership had to raise $900 million for reserve funds to cover interest payments, apartment renovations and capital improvements.
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