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PRTH (Priority Technology Holdings) Interest Coverage : 1.50 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Priority Technology Holdings 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. Priority Technology Holdings's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $32.6 Mil. Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $-21.8 Mil. Priority Technology Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 1.50. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Priority Technology Holdings Inc interest coverage is 1.47, which is low.

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

PRTH' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.18   Med: 1.06   Max: No Debt
Current: 1.47


PRTH's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
92.55% of 1677 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 26.09 vs PRTH: 1.47

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


Priority Technology Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Priority Technology Holdings'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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Priority Technology Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

Priority Technology Holdings Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.47 0.91 1.05 1.07 1.50

Priority Technology Holdings Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.49 1.53 1.75 1.19 1.50

Competitive Comparison of Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Priority Technology Holdings'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.


Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Coverage falls into.


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Priority Technology Holdings 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.

Priority Technology Holdings'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, Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Expense was $-88.9 Mil. Its Operating Income was $133.4 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $920.9 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2024 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2024 )
=-1*133.421/-88.948
=1.50

Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2025, Priority Technology Holdings's Interest Expense was $-21.8 Mil. Its Operating Income was $32.6 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $918.9 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2025 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2025 )
=-1*32.625/-21.776
=1.50

* 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.


Priority Technology Holdings  (NAS:PRTH) 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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Priority Technology Holdings Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
2001 Westside Parkway, Suite 155, Alpharetta, GA, USA, 30004
Priority Technology Holdings Inc is a provider of merchant acquiring and commercial payment solutions to small and medium business enterprises in the United States. The company has three reportable segments which are SMB Payments, B2B Payments, and Enterprise Payments. SMB Payments segment which generates the majority of revenue provides full-service acquiring and payment-enabled solutions for B2C transactions, leveraging Priority's proprietary software platform, distributed through ISO; the B2B Payments segment provides AP automation solutions to corporations, software partners, & industry FIs: and Enterprise Payments segment provides embedded payment & treasury solutions to enterprise customers to modernize legacy platforms & accelerate software partners' strategies to monetize payments.
Executives
Marietta Davis director C/O SHARPSPRING, 550 SW 2ND AVENUE, GAINESVILLE FL 32601
Ranjana Ram officer: Head of M&A Strategic Initiati C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
John Vito Priore director, 10 percent owner, officer: President and CEO 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Thomas Charles Priore director, 10 percent owner, officer: President, CEO and Chairman 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Sean Kiewiet officer: Chief Technology Officer 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Rajiv Kumar officer: Chief Accounting Officer C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Tim O'leary officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Stephen W Hipp director C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Marc A Crisafulli director C/O GTECH HOLDINGS CORPORATION, 55 TECHNOLOGY WAY, WEST GREENWICH RI 02817
David Faupel officer: Chief Marketing Officer C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Anthony Martin Bonventre officer: EVP Operations C/O PRIORITY TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, INC., 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Michael Passilla director 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Pamela A Tefft officer: Corporate Controller and Chief 11720 AMBER PARK DRIVE, SUITE 600, ALPHARETTA GA 30004
Bradley J Miller officer: General Counsel and CRO C/O UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS, INC., P.O. BOX 398, BLAIRSVILLE GA 30514
Priority Incentive Equity Holdings, Llc director, 10 percent owner, officer: President, CEO and Chairman 2001 WESTSIDE PARKWAY, SUITE 155, ALPHARETTA GA 30004