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Edwards Lifesciences (FRA:EWL) Interest Coverage

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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. Edwards Lifesciences's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was €393 Mil. Edwards Lifesciences's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was €0 Mil. GuruFocus does not calculate 's interest coverage with the available data. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Edwards Lifesciences Corp has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

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


FRA:EWL's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 19.59
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.

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


Edwards Lifesciences Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Edwards Lifesciences'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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Edwards Lifesciences Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Edwards Lifesciences Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Edwards Lifesciences'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.


Edwards Lifesciences Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Edwards Lifesciences's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Edwards Lifesciences 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.

Edwards Lifesciences'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, Edwards Lifesciences's Interest Expense was €-16 Mil. Its Operating Income was €1,586 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €614 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*1586.227/-16.139
=98.29

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Edwards Lifesciences's Interest Expense was €0 Mil. Its Operating Income was €393 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €614 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Edwards Lifesciences's interest coverage with the available data.

* 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.


Edwards Lifesciences  (FRA:EWL) 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 .


Edwards Lifesciences Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Edwards Lifesciences (FRA:EWL) Business Description

Address
One Edwards Way, Irvine, CA, USA, 92614
Spun off from Baxter International in 2000, Edwards Lifesciences designs, manufactures, and markets a range of medical devices and equipment for advanced stages of structural heart disease. It has established itself as a leader across key products, including surgical tissue heart valves, transcatheter valve technologies, surgical clips, catheters, and monitoring systems used to measure a patient's heart function during surgery. The firm derives about 55% of its total sales from outside the U.S.