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Financial Analysis

Analyze financial data and metrics to evaluate business performance and health

Interest Coverage Ratio: What Your Loan Covenant Measures and How to Cure a Breach Before It Triggers Default

The interest coverage ratio (EBIT ÷ interest expense) is the loan covenant small businesses trip most often, with minimums typically set between 2.5x and 4.5x and tested quarterly on trailing twelve months. This guide explains how lenders define EBITDA and interest expense, what a breach triggers (default rate, frozen draws, cross-defaults), and the cure sequence in cost order — early covenant reset, waiver, amendment, equity cure, forbearance — plus the bookkeeping that keeps your ratio visible before the bank sees it.

Lowe's Q2 FY2026 Earnings: $26 Billion of Sales, but Acquisitions Did 90% of the Growth

Lowe's posted $25.96B in Q2 FY2026 revenue, up 8.3%, but net earnings were flat at $2.40B and operating margin fell 81 basis points. Acquired businesses supplied about 90% of the sales increase while Retail Home Improvement grew just 0.8% and comparable sales rose 0.2% — the full income statement and balance sheet reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.

MiniMax H1 2026 Earnings: $116.6M Revenue, a $293.0M Adjusted Loss, and a New Balance Sheet

MiniMax reported $116.6M of H1 2026 revenue, up 283.1% and more than its entire FY2025 result, as Open Platform revenue grew 703.1% to become 63.4% of the mix. IFRS net loss narrowed 11% to $358.0M only because fair-value charges on pre-IPO preferred shares fell $222.9M; adjusted net loss more than doubled to $293.0M as R&D reached $296.9M — twice the incremental revenue — while the January listing converted a $3.6B preferred-share liability into $1.35B of positive equity. The full income statement and balance sheet are reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.

Starbucks Q3 FY2026 Earnings: 7.9% Comp Growth Behind a Revenue Decline

Starbucks reported $9.32B of Q3 FY2026 revenue, down 1.4%, while global comparable-store sales rose 7.9% and net earnings nearly doubled to $1.05B. Moving China retail into a licensed joint venture removed roughly $780M of consolidated revenue, and a $536.3M divestiture gain accounted for more than the entire year-over-year increase in net income — the full income statement and balance sheet reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.

Uber Q2 2026 Earnings: 24% Gross Bookings Growth and a $1.6 Billion Profit Swing

Uber processed $58.0B of gross bookings in Q2 2026, up 24%, while revenue grew 12% to $14.19B and operating income grew 30% to $1.89B. Net income rose 77% to $2.39B, but a $1.61B gain on debt and equity securities supplied more than half of pre-tax profit, and a UK shift to an agent model cut reported revenue by roughly $1.1B — the full income statement and balance sheet reconciled in a public Beancount ledger.

Cisco Q4 FY2026 Earnings: $9.3 Billion of AI Orders Against an 80% Inventory Build

Cisco's fiscal fourth quarter brought $17.25B of revenue (+18%), $3.86B of net income (+51%), 40% networking order growth and $9.3B of full-year hyperscaler AI orders — alongside inventory up 80% to $5.69B and full-year operating cash flow flat at $14.2B. A Beancount ledger reconciles the income statement, the inventory build and the deferred-revenue counterweight.

Home Depot Q2 FY2026 Earnings: 75% of the Sales Growth Came From the SRS Distribution Bet

Home Depot's Q2 FY2026 sales rose 5.7% to $47.86B, but the Other/SRS distribution segment supplied about 75% of the $2.58B increase at a 4.9% operating margin versus 15.4% for retail. Roughly $685M of IEEPA tariff refunds cut cost of goods sold; backing it out puts inferred gross margin near 32.2% and operating margin near 12.9%, while comparable transactions fell 1.0%.

Target Q2 FY2026 Earnings: $1.65 of the $4.11 EPS Came From a Tariff Refund

Target's Q2 FY2026 net sales rose 5.3% to $26.54B and diluted EPS doubled to $4.11, but $994M of tariff refunds cut cost of sales and supplied $1.65 of that EPS plus 3.7 points of operating margin. Excluding the refund, operating income still grew about 19% and gross margin was near 29.9%, on comparable sales of +3.8% led by 3.6% traffic growth and 8.7% digital growth.

Carnival FY2026 Q2 Earnings: The $9.0B Liability That Makes the Demand Story

Carnival's FY2026 Q2 revenue rose 5.3% to $6.66B while operating income fell 8.9% — fuel cost per metric ton jumped 29% to $793 and net income slipped to $539M. Customer deposits reached $9.0B, cash-backed proof of booked demand that is still a refundable liability sitting against $23.4B of long-term debt. Every figure traced line by line in a public Beancount ledger covering FY2021 through Q2 FY2026.