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Longboard Pharmaceuticals (Longboard Pharmaceuticals) Interest Coverage : N/A (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Longboard Pharmaceuticals 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. Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-18.11 Mil. Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.00 Mil. GuruFocus does not calculate 's interest coverage with the available data. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Longboard Pharmaceuticals Inc has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

(1) 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.

The historical rank and industry rank for Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:


LBPH's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 152.38
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.

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


Longboard Pharmaceuticals Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Longboard Pharmaceuticals'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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Longboard Pharmaceuticals Interest Coverage Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Longboard Pharmaceuticals'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.


Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage falls into.



Longboard Pharmaceuticals 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.

Longboard Pharmaceuticals'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, Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-56.76 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $0.00 Mil.

Longboard Pharmaceuticals had no debt (1).

Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Longboard Pharmaceuticals's Interest Expense was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-18.11 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $3.67 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Longboard Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage with the available data.

* 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.


Longboard Pharmaceuticals  (NAS:LBPH) 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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Longboard Pharmaceuticals (Longboard Pharmaceuticals) Business Description

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Address
4275 Executive Square, Suite 950, La Jolla, CA, USA, 92037
Longboard Pharmaceuticals Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, transformative medicines for neurological diseases. The company is working to improve a portfolio of centrally acting product candidates designed to be selective for specific G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The company is evaluating LP352, an oral, centrally acting 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C (5-HT2C) receptor superagonist, with negligible observed impact on 5-HT2B and 5-HT2A receptor subtypes, in development for the potential treatment of seizures associated with a broad range of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies.
Executives
Randall Kaye officer: CMO 11388 SORRENTO VALLEY ROAD, STE. 200, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Jane Tiller director C/O LONGBOARD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 4275 EXECUTIVE DRIVE, SUITE 950, LA JOLLA CA 92037
Brandi Roberts officer: Chief Financial Officer 12390 EL CAMINO REAL #150, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Phillip M Schneider director GEN-PROBE INCORPORATED, 10210 GENETIC CENTER DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Vincent Aurentz director C/O ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 6154 NANCY RIDGE DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Kevin Robert Lind director, officer: President and CEO C/O ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 6154 NANCY RIDGE DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Paul J Sekhri director C/O VEEVA SYSTEMS INC., 4637 CHABOT DRIVE, SUITE 210, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Casey Lynch director C/O CORTEXYME, INC., 269 EAST GRAND AVE., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Le Goff Corinne director 200 TECHNOLOGY SQUARE, SUITE 300, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc 10 percent owner 6154 NANCY RIDGE DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Philip Perera officer: Chief Medical Officer C/O LONGBOARD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 6154 NANCY RIDGE DRIVE, SAN DIEGO CA 92121