Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) Interest Coverage

: 4.45 (As of Dec. 2022)

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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 EBIT by its Interest Expense. Assurant's EBIT for the three months ended in Dec. 2022 was $124 Mil. Assurant's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2022 was $-28 Mil. Assurant's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 was 4.45. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

AIZ' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4.23 Med: 7.22 Max: 15.73
Current: 4.19

AIZ's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
78.93% of 299 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 14.21 vs AIZ: 4.19

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

Assurant Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Assurant's Interest Coverage can be seen below:

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Assurant Annual Data

Trend

Dec13

Dec14

Dec15

Dec16

Dec17

Dec18

Dec19

Dec20

Dec21

Dec22

Interest Coverage

4.33

5.11

6.53

7.90

4.23

Assurant Quarterly Data
	Mar18	Jun18	Sep18	Dec18	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22
Interest Coverage																6.85	7.35	3.57	1.32	4.45

Competitive Comparison

For the Insurance - Specialty subindustry, Assurant'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.

Annual Data Quarterly Data

Assurant Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Assurant's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Assurant's Interest Coverage falls in comparison to its industry or sector. The grey bar indicates the Interest Coverage's extreme value range as defined by GuruFocus.

Assurant 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 EBIT is positive, then

Interest Coverage

-1

EBIT

Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and EBIT 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.

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

Assurant's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2022, Assurant's Interest Expense was $-108 Mil. Its EBIT was $458 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,130 Mil.

Interest Coverage	=	-1	*	EBIT (A: Dec. 2022 )	/	Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2022 )
	=	-1	*	458.2	/	-108.3
	=	4.23

Assurant's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2022 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2022, Assurant's Interest Expense was $-28 Mil. Its EBIT was $124 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,130 Mil.

Interest Coverage	=	-1	*	EBIT (Q: Dec. 2022 )	/	Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2022 )
	=	-1	*	124.2	/	-27.9
	=	4.45

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

Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) 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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Assurant (NYSE:AIZ) Business Description

Industry

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AIZP.PFD:USA ZAS:Germany

Address

55 Broadway, Suite 2901, New York, NY, USA, 10006

Website

https://www.assurant.com

Assurant Inc offers a range of property-casualty, health, employee benefit, and warranty insurance to a client base made up of individuals and institutions. Its segments are Global Housing, Global Lifestyle, Corporate and Other. Global Housing segment, the key revenue-generating segment, provides lender-placed homeowners insurance, lender-placed manufactured housing insurance and lender-placed flood insurance; renters insurance and related products; and voluntary manufactured housing insurance, voluntary homeowners insurance and other specialty products. Global Lifestyle provides mobile device solutions and extended service products and related services for mobile devices, consumer electronics and appliances; vehicle protection; and credit protection and other insurance products.

Executives

Sari Beth Granat	director	C/O MARKIT LTD, 4TH FL, ROPEMAKER PLACE, 25 ROPEMAKER STREET, LONDON X0 EC2Y 9LY
Keith Meier	officer: EVP, COO	C/O ASSURANT, INC., 55 BROADWAY, SUITE 2901, NEW YORK NY 10006
Dimitry Dirienzo	officer: SVP, CAO, Controller	C/O ASSURANT, INC., 28 LIBERTY ST. 41 F., NEW YORK NY 10005
Jay Rosenblum	officer: EVP and CLO	C/O ASSURANT, INC., 28 LIBERTY ST, 41ST FL., NEW YORK NY 10005
Francesca Luthi	officer: EVP, CAO	1180 NORTH TOWN CENTER DRIVE, SUITE 100, LAS VEGAS NV 89144
Carter J Braxton Ii	director	C/O T-MOBILE US, INC., 12920 SE 38TH STREET, BELLEVUE WA 98006
Paget Leonard Alves	director	SPRINT NEXTEL, 6200 SPRINT PARKWAY KSOPHF0410 - 4A403, OVERLAND PARK KS 66251
Ognjen Redzic	director	C/O ASSURANT, INC., 28 LIBERTY STREET, 41ST FL., NEW YORK NY 10005
Tammy L. Schultz	officer: EVP	C/O ASSURANT, INC.,28 LIBERTY STREET, 41ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10005
Robert Lonergan	officer: EVP, other: Chief Strategy Officer	C/O ASSURANT, INC.,28 LIBERTY STREET, 41ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10005
Michael P. Campbell	officer: EVP	C/O ASSURANT, INC.,28 LIBERTY STREET, 41ST FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10005
Keith Demmings	officer: EVP	C/O ASSURANT, INC.,28 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK NY 10005
Peter Mcgoohan	director	301 COMMERCE STREET,SUITE 3300, FORT WORTH TX 76102
Eric W Leathers	director	54 THOMPSON ST, NEW YORK NY 10012
Tpg Advisors Vi-aiv, Inc.	10 percent owner	301 COMMERCE STREET, FORT WORTH TX 76102