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Echo Global Logistics (Echo Global Logistics) Financial Strength : 8 (As of Sep. 2021)


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What is Echo Global Logistics Financial Strength?

Echo Global Logistics has the Financial Strength Rank of 8. It shows strong financial strength and is unlikely to fall into distressed situations.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Echo Global Logistics's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 was 41.10. Echo Global Logistics's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 was 0.03. As of today, Echo Global Logistics's Altman Z-Score is 0.00.


Competitive Comparison of Echo Global Logistics's Financial Strength

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, Echo Global Logistics's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Echo Global Logistics's Financial Strength Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Echo Global Logistics's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Echo Global Logistics's Financial Strength falls into.



Echo Global Logistics Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). 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.

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:

Echo Global Logistics's Interest Expense for the months ended in Sep. 2021 was $-1 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Sep. 2021 was $26 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 was $130 Mil.

Echo Global Logistics's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2021 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2021 )
=-1*26.222/-0.638
=41.10

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Echo Global Logistics's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2021 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Sep. 2021 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(0 + 129.74) / 3942.36
=0.03

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Echo Global Logistics has a Z-score of 0.00, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

* 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.


Echo Global Logistics  (NAS:ECHO) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Echo Global Logistics has the Financial Strength Rank of 8. It shows strong financial strength and is unlikely to fall into distressed situations.


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Echo Global Logistics (Echo Global Logistics) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
600 West Chicago Avenue, Suite 725, Chicago, IL, USA, 60654
Founded in 2005, Echo Global Logistics is an asset-light third-party logistics provider primarily focused on domestic truckload and less-than-truckload brokerage. It also offers intermodal and international air and ocean freight forwarding services, though to a lesser degree. Key strategic initiatives include gaining organic market share in the highly fragmented brokerage industry and supplementing its sales capabilities through tuck-in acquisitions. Echo completed its initial public offering in October 2009.
Executives
Douglas R Waggoner director, officer: Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Wagner Ferguson director C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, INC. 600 W CHICAGO AVE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Samuel K Skinner director 233 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, 22ND FLOOR, CHICAGO IL 60601
David B Menzel officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, INC. 600 WEST CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Douglas Hong officer: Controller 600 WEST CHICAGO AVENUE SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Peter Rogers officer: Controller C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Kyle Sauers officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS, 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725, CHICAGO IL 60654
Virginia Henkels director SWIFT TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, 2200 SOUTH 75TH AVENUE, PHOENIX AZ 85043
Farrow William M Iii director C/O CBOE GLOBAL MARKETS, INC., 433 WEST VAN BUREN STREET, CHICAGO IL 60607
Paul Loeb director 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Bradley A Keywell director
Eric P Lefkofsky director, 10 percent owner 501 SILVERSIDE ROAD SUITE 87F, WILMONGTON DE 19809
Evan Schumacher officer: Chief Commercial Officer C/O ECHO GLOBAL LOGISTICS 600 W. CHICAGO AVENUE, SUITE 725 CHICAGO IL 60654
Nelda J Connors director BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, 300 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC WAY, MARLBOROUGH MA 01752-1234
John R Walter director 401 NORTH AHWAHNEE RD, LAKE FOREST IL 60045

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