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Avient (Avient) Interest Coverage

: 1.61 (As of Dec. 2023)
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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 Operating Income by its Interest Expense. Avient's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $43 Mil. Avient's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-27 Mil. Avient's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.61. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

AVNT' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.71   Med: 2.74   Max: 4.48
Current: 1.71


AVNT's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
88.35% of 1193 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 9.67 vs AVNT: 1.71

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


Avient Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Avient'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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Avient Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.64 2.54 3.72 2.03 1.71

Avient Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Interest Coverage 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.01 1.98 2.12 1.13 1.61

Competitive Comparison

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Avient'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.


Avient Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Avient's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Avient 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.

Avient's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Avient's Interest Expense was $-115 Mil. Its Operating Income was $197 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,114 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*196.8/-115.3
=1.71

Avient's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Avient's Interest Expense was $-27 Mil. Its Operating Income was $43 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $2,114 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*43.1/-26.8
=1.61

* 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.


Avient  (NYSE:AVNT) 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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Avient (Avient) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake, OH, USA, 44012
Avient Corp manufactures and sells a variety of chemical and plastic-based products to designers and processors of plastics. The firm operates in three segments: Specialty Engineered Materials; Distribution; and Color, Additives, & Ink. The company's product portfolio includes concentrated color and ink blends, plastic resins, and various specialized polymer materials used in industries such as food packaging, construction, transportation, cosmetics, and healthcare. The color, additives, & ink segment and the distribution segment together generate a vast majority of revenue. More than half of the total revenue is derived from the United States.
Executives
Robert M Patterson director, officer: Chairman, President & CEO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Joel R. Rathbun officer: SVP, Mergers & Acquisitions 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Kristen Gajewski officer: SVP & CHRO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Lisa K. Kunkle officer: SVP Gnrl Counsel & Secretary 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Neil Green director 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Ernest Nicolas director 1201 S. 2ND STREET, MILWAUKEE WI 53204
Michael A Garratt officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Robert Vinod Purayath officer: SVP & Chief Technology Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Jamie A. Beggs officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Cathy Dodd officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
J Scott Horn officer: SVP, President Distribution 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Richard H Fearon director 1239 GERBING ROAD, AMELIA ISLAND FL 32034
Midea M. John Jr. officer: SVP, Glbl Ops & Process Imprv 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Woon Keat Moh officer: SVP, President of CAI 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Patricia Verduin director ONE CONAGRA DRIVE, OMAHA NE 68102

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