Sentence examples for interest coverage from inspiring English sources

"But there were quite a few red flags on the financials: gross margins were declining, interest coverage was getting worse, return on sales was deteriorating".

Mr. Bleakley estimates that Allied's interest coverage, a measure of a company's ability to pay its debt, would be cut in half and fall below acceptable levels should it bid for the entire Seagram portfolio.

Were Harrah's Entertainment, a casino operator, to cut capital spending to "maintenance" levels sufficient just to keep the business running, its interest coverage would rise from an estimated 0.8 times to a less sweaty-palmed 1.3 times.

Such "covenants" vary, but the important ones are those that either prevent a company from borrowing too much (known as leverage covenants), or force it to earn enough to pay interest (coverage covenants).

Halliburton's interest coverage is a healthy 7.4 times.

Instead of the leverage ratio, earnings-stripping rules specify an interest coverage ratio.

And it's hard for me to see how that scenario would be any worse for the rest of paper's general-interest coverage than the Post's current slide into the red, and very easy to see how it would have been a whole lot better.

But with players now fighting over a much richer Kurdistan and internal discord brewing, the cost of attempting honest public-interest coverage has grown.

In his first year, Pérez-Feria oversaw a revolutionary redesign of the New York City-based magazine and, in the process, redefined its three primary areas of focus: exclusive celebrity stories, fashion and beauty features and compelling human-interest coverage.

To select issues, the managers look for a debt-to-capital ratio of 50percentt or less and a substantial interest-coverage ratio, which measures a company's ability to pay interest from its current operations.

The chain has a healthy interest-coverage ratio of six meaning earnings before interest and taxes are six times the interest cost.