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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Interest Coverage : 6.94 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Pegasystems Interest Coverage?

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 by its Interest Expense. Pegasystems's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $12 Mil. Pegasystems's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-2 Mil. Pegasystems's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 6.94. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

The historical rank and industry rank for Pegasystems's Interest Coverage or its related term are showing as below:

PEGA' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 14.94   Med: No Debt   Max: No Debt
Current: 20.21


PEGA's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
60.5% of 1600 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 29.37 vs PEGA: 20.21

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


Pegasystems Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pegasystems's Interest Coverage 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.

Note: For Interest Coverage, "No debt" indicates no long-term debt. An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Pegasystems Interest Coverage Chart

Pegasystems Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Pegasystems Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Pegasystems's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Application subindustry, Pegasystems's Interest Coverage, along with its competitors' market caps and Interest Coverage data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Pegasystems's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Pegasystems's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Pegasystems's Interest Coverage falls into.



Pegasystems Interest Coverage Calculation

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:

If Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

The company did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

The company had no debt (1).


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

Pegasystems's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Pegasystems's Interest Expense was $-7 Mil. Its Operating Income was $103 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $566 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*102.701/-6.876
=14.94

Pegasystems's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Pegasystems's Interest Expense was $-2 Mil. Its Operating Income was $12 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $64 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*12.154/-1.752
=6.94

* 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.


Pegasystems  (NAS:PEGA) Interest Coverage Explanation

Ben Graham requires that a company has a minimum interest coverage of 5 with the companies he invested. If the interest coverage is less than 2, the company is burdened by debt. Any business slow or recession may drag the company into a situation where it cannot pay the interest on its debt.

Interest Coverage is an important factor when GuruFocus ranks a company's overage Financial Strength .


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Pegasystems (Pegasystems) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
One Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02142
Founded in 1983, Pegasystems provides a suite of solutions for customer engagement and business process management. The company's key offering is the Pega Infinity platform, which combines business process management, or BPM, with customer relationship management, or CRM, applications. The company focuses on enterprise-size customers, specifically within the financial, insurance, and healthcare verticals.
Executives
Efstathios A Kouninis officer: VP of Finance & CAO 26 GRANDVIEW DRIVE, DOVER NH 03820
Rifat Kerim Akgonul officer: Chief Product Officer ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Leon Trefler officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Kenneth Stillwell officer: CFO, SVP ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRDIGE MA 02142
Richard H Jones director C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
John Gerard Higgins officer: Chief, Client &Partner Success C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michael R Pyle officer: Senior VP, Engineering C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIGE MA 02142
Christopher Lafond director 56 TOP GALLANT RD, STAMFORD CT 06904
Sharon T Rowlands director 195 BROADWAY, NEW YORK NY 10007
Dianne Ledingham director ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Larry Weber director C/O MIVA, INC., 5220 SUMMERLIN COMMONS BLVD., SUITE 500, FORT MYERS FL 33907
Douglas I Kra officer: SVP, Global Customer Success 101 MAIN STREET, C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Hayden Stafford officer: President ONE ROGERS STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Peter Gyenes director 50 WASHINGTON ST, WESBOROUGH MA 012581
Alan Trefler 10 percent owner, officer: C.E.O. & Chairman C/O PEGASYSTEMS INC, 101 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142