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Polycom (Polycom) Interest Expense : $-6 Mil (TTM As of Jun. 2016)


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What is Polycom Interest Expense?

Interest Expense is the amount reported by a company or individual as an expense for borrowed money. Polycom's interest expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $ -2 Mil. Its interest expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 was $-6 Mil.

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. Polycom's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $ -1 Mil. Polycom's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $ -2 Mil. Polycom did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is. Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.


Polycom Interest Expense Historical Data

The historical data trend for Polycom's Interest Expense 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.

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Polycom Interest Expense Chart

Polycom Annual Data
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Interest Expense
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Polycom Quarterly Data
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Polycom Interest Expense Calculation

Interest Expense is the amount reported by a company or individual as an expense for borrowed money.

Interest Expense for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-6 Mil.

* 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.


Polycom  (NAS:PLCM) Interest Expense Explanation

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. The higher, the better.

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

Polycom's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-2 Mil. Its Operating Income for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $-1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was $226 Mil.

Polycom's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as

Polycom did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

* 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.


Polycom (Polycom) Business Description

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Polycom Inc was incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. The Company provides an open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice, video and content collaboration solutions. Its solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. The Company is engaged in helping organizations achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity by unleashing the power of human collaboration. The Company sells its solutions through a high-touch sales model that leverages its network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators; communications services providers, and retailers. The Company serves in three geographical segments; Americas, EMEA and APAC. Its products and solutions are; UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Platform, which includes collaboration servers, virtualization management "distributed media optimization", resource management, recording and streaming, open API's and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform, and UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. It competes in the UC&C market with products and solutions that enable voice, video and content collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via its customer premises-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social-collaboration business platforms, and video collaboration-as-a-service offerings delivered from the cloud. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Acano, Avaya Inc., Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Logitech International S.A./LifeSize, PexIP, Snom Technology Ag, Vidyo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation/Revolabs, Inc., Yealink, ZTE Corporation and others. Its products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations.
Executives
Laura Durr officer: CFO C/O XPERI HOLDING CORPORATION, 3025 ORCHARD PARKWAY, SAN JOSE CA 95134
Peter Leav director, officer: President & CEO 7 WORLD TRADE CENTER, 250 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10007
Martha Helena Bejar director C/O POLYCOM, INC., 6001 AMERICA CENTER DRIVE, SAN JOSE CA 95002
Gary James Daichendt director 2633 RIVIERA DRIVE, LAGUNA BEACH CA 92651
Robert J Frankenberg director 701 E. SUNBURST LN, ALPINE UT 84004
Betsy S Atkins director, other: Former Director
William Arthur Owens director C/O CENTURYLINK, INC., 100 CENTURYLINK DRIVE, MONROE LA 71203
Eric F Brown officer: CFO, COO & EVP C/O POLYCOM, INC., 4750 WILLOW ROAD, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Tracey Newell officer: EVP Global Sales 4750 WILLOW ROAD, PLEASANTON CA 94588
Andrew M. Miller director, officer: President and CEO 6001 AMERICA CENTER DR., SAN JOSE CA 95164
David G Dewalt director
Sudhakar Ramakrishna officer: Pres. of Products & Services 4750 WILLOW RD., PLEASANTON CA 94588
Michael R Kourey officer: Former EVP, Fin & Admin. & CFO
Robert C Hagerty director, officer: President/CEO
Kevin Kennedy other: Former Director

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