Without more information this is a meaningless statistic. A company with $100 million in debt service costs and $99 million in profits makes the list and so does a company with $100 million in debt service costs and no profits. What percentage of these companies are debt ladened oil and gas companies? What is the industry breakdown?
I would add that a better way to measure is to use the net dollar amount instead of number of companies.
Even this curve doesn't look that much of a linear, more of an exponential, while the dollar curve would look even worse :/ (Probably) Wonder how those charts looks in other nations. Heard Australians are good at making zombies too, Japan as well (?)
Don't think @chigrl understood business or finance. It is not profits that service debt, it is cash flows stupid.
just issue corporate bonds, slap a BBB rating on them, and most importantly donate to Donnie's campaign and they should be golden