Should Investors Worry about AMD’s Long-Term Flexibility?
In the previous article, we saw that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) does not have sufficient cash and equity to meet its total debt obligations, which brings us to the question of whether it has the capability to service its $1.6 billion worth of debt. AMD’s EBIT was just 1.21x its net interest expense in 2017, showing that the company barely managed to pay the interest on its debt. On the other hand, rivals Intel (INTC) and NVIDIA (NVDA) have net interest coverage ratios of 28.7x and 52.6x, respectively.