For example, when a company’s interest coverage ratio is 1.5 or lower, it can only cover its obligations a maximum of one and a half times.

Companies with a low interest coverage ratio are more at risk when they take on more debt, whereas companies with more comfortable interest coverage ratios are less at risk from gearing. In the ...

Gearing ratios form a broad category of financial ratios, of which the debt-to-equity ratio is the predominant example. Accountants, economists, investors, lenders, and company executives use ...

How to Interpret Days to Cover. If a stock’s short interest ratio is below 1, that means all open short positions could theoretically be covered in a single day, ...

As of end-February this year, the 40 actively traded S-Reits and Property Trusts had an average gearing ratio of 37.7 per cent, below the regulatory limit of 50 per cent if the minimum interest ...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) proposed that all S-REITs face a higher gearing limit of 50% and a reduced minimum interest coverage ratio (ICR) of 1.5x, from the current 2.5x for REITs ...