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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Interest Coverage : 2.43 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Performant Financial 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. Performant Financial's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.9 Mil. Performant Financial's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.8 Mil. Performant Financial's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.43. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


PFMT's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Business Services industry.
Industry Median: 13.39
* 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.


Performant Financial Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Performant Financial'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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Performant Financial Interest Coverage Chart

Performant Financial Annual Data
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Performant Financial Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Performant Financial's Interest Coverage

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Performant Financial'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.


Performant Financial's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Performant Financial's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Performant Financial 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.

Performant Financial'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, Performant Financial's Interest Expense was $-2.0 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-6.1 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $5.3 Mil.

Performant Financial did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Performant Financial's Interest Expense was $-0.8 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1.9 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $5.3 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*1.912/-0.786
=2.43

* 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.


Performant Financial  (NAS:PFMT) 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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Performant Financial (Performant Financial) Business Description

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Address
333 North Canyons Parkway, Livermore, CA, USA, 94551
Performant Financial Corp provides technology-enabled recovery and related analytics services in the United States. The company provides its services on an outsourced basis where it handles many or all aspects of its clients' recovery processes. It uses technology-enabled services platform to provide recovery and analytics services in a range of markets for the identification and recovery of student loans, improper healthcare payments and delinquent state tax and federal treasury receivables. The services are primarily offered across a broad range of government and private clients in several markets. The revenue generated here is generally on success-based as it earns fees based on a percentage of the aggregate amount of funds that it enables the clients to recover.
Executives
Prescott Group Capital Management, L.l.c. 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH UTICA, SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6429
Rohit Ramchandani officer: Chief Financial Officer 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Ecmc Group, Inc. 10 percent owner 1 IMATION PLACE, BLDG 2, SUITE 392A, OAKDALE MN 55128
Pcp Managers Gp, Llc 10 percent owner FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Dcs Holdings, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Eric Yanagi director 400 OYSTER POINT BOULEVARD, SUITE 526, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Pcp Managers, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3610, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Pcap Partners Ii, Llc 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Parthenon Investors Ii. L.p. 10 percent owner C/O PARTHENON CAPITAL PARTNERS, 400 EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
James Lacamp director 333 NORTH CANYONS PARKWAY, LIVERMORE CA 94551
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Lp 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Master Fund Gp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Prescott Group Aggressive Small Cap Ii Lp 10 percent owner 1924 S UTICA SUITE # 1120, TULSA OK 74104-6529
Phil Frohlich 10 percent owner 1924 SOUTH IRICA SUITE 1120, TULSA OK 741046529