Interest coverage indicates how many times the interest could be paid from available earnings, thereby providing a sense of the safety margin a company has for paying its interest for any period. A company that sustains earnings well above its interest requirements is in an excellent position to weather possible financial storms. By contrast, a company that barely manages to cover its interest costs may easily fall into bankruptcy if its earnings suffer for even a single month. This is especially true for cyclical industry!

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Jaya Holdings (Above)

Ezra (Above)

Ezra's interest converage after deducting for one off items is a mere 5.06% and Jaya's is 52.5%. No wonder Jaya can still give off dividends and Ezra has not declared any dividends. Even if we give Ezra a chance, and don't deduct their one off items, its coverage is only 26.1%, half of Jaya's! Tsk Tsk Tsk. No wonder you are in the top volume for 2 days consecutively.

And hello...dear readers..look at how these 2 companies are still so optimistic about the oil and gas industry. Do they watch CNBC or have they been living in a cave? As usual the management talk!

Wow wow wow...Ezra made it to the top 20 hitlist for highest volume. See article we wrote about Ezra here. ( We neber short the stock ah..promise promise...as you can see the article we wrote wasn't that negative and we are unbiased, only pure facts merlion from our mouth, with substantiated data.) Having said that, we absolutely love Ezra management's swift and sharp response to the Citigroup Investment Research Analyst's report on 22 October 2008. Meeow...Grrrgh...catfight!Owww..Here is their response.

Well SGDividends is neutral to their "intense discussion". (But we kinda like Ezra's management though...but then we also liked Citigroup's "Dream's never sleep" commercial). Whatever...here is something for our readers to think about. This was from Ezra management's mouth in the year 2003 Prospectus. What do you guys (or lovely ladies ...darlings) think, given this current environment?

And if you have read what Citigroup wrote and what Ezra replied about the following term" Market Disruption Clause". Below is an article from The Financial Times regarding it.

To avoid the risk of seeming like we are biased, we have compiled the following link for our readers to read to get the big picture. As our parents always say, let's hear the other side of the story before jumping to conclusions!
Ezra Current Shareholder Responds to a forummer's opinion.