Unilever NV (Unilever NV) Interest Coverage : 12.36 (As of Jun. 2020)

Unilever NV Interest Coverage Chart

Unilever NV Annual Data
	Trend	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16	Dec17	Dec18	Dec19
Interest Coverage		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					15.27	15.57	8.71	18.40	12.15

Unilever NV Semi-Annual Data
	Dec10	Jun11	Dec11	Jun12	Dec12	Jun13	Dec13	Jun14	Dec14	Jun15	Dec15	Jun16	Dec16	Jun17	Dec17	Jun18	Dec18	Jun19	Dec19	Jun20
Interest Coverage	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															13.44	23.17	10.93	13.87	12.36

Competitive Comparison of Unilever NV's Interest Coverage

For the Household & Personal Products subindustry, Unilever NV'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.

Unilever NV's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Unilever NV's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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

Unilever NV 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

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

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

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

Unilever NV's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2019, Unilever NV's Interest Expense was $-797 Mil. Its Operating Income was $9,676 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $25,949 Mil.

Unilever NV's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2020 is calculated as

Here, for the six months ended in Jun. 2020, Unilever NV's Interest Expense was $-426 Mil. Its Operating Income was $5,261 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $27,042 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.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.

Unilever NV  (OTCPK:UNLNF) 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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