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ARDT (Ardent Health Partners) Interest Coverage : 11.65 (As of Dec. 2024)


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What is Ardent Health Partners 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. Ardent Health Partners's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was $158 Mil. Ardent Health Partners's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2024 was $-14 Mil. Ardent Health Partners's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 11.65. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

ARDT' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.38   Med: 2.65   Max: 6.35
Current: 6.35


ARDT's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
56.29% of 421 companies
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry
Industry Median: 8.44 vs ARDT: 6.35

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


Ardent Health Partners Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ardent Health Partners'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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Ardent Health Partners Interest Coverage Chart

Ardent Health Partners Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 1.38 4.65 2.65 3.02 6.19

Ardent Health Partners Quarterly Data
Dec16 Dec17 Sep18 Dec18 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.42 4.23 5.62 4.81 11.65

Competitive Comparison of Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Ardent Health Partners'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.


Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Ardent Health Partners 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.

Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024, Ardent Health Partners's Interest Expense was $-66 Mil. Its Operating Income was $406 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,227 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*405.762/-65.578
=6.19

Ardent Health Partners's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2024, Ardent Health Partners's Interest Expense was $-14 Mil. Its Operating Income was $158 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,227 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*157.572/-13.528
=11.65

* 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.


Ardent Health Partners  (NYSE:ARDT) 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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Ardent Health Partners Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, TN, USA, 37027
Ardent Health Partners Inc is an operator of hospitals and a provider of healthcare services in the United States. It provides both general and specialty services, including internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, women's services, neurology, urology, and emergency services, within inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The company has one reportable segment: healthcare services that provides healthcare services predominantly through its ownership and operation of hospitals, certain of which provide related healthcare services through physician practices, outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities. Ardent has 30 acute care hospitals, more than 200 sites of care that operate across six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas.