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Welltower (Welltower) Interest Coverage

: 1.85 (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. Welltower's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $286 Mil. Welltower's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-155 Mil. Welltower's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.85. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

WELL' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.45   Med: 2.12   Max: 2.57
Current: 1.81


WELL's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
71.79% of 677 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 3.01 vs WELL: 1.81

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


Welltower Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Welltower'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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Welltower 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 2.27 1.45 1.62 1.57 1.81

Welltower 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 1.32 1.51 2.09 1.77 1.85

Competitive Comparison

For the REIT - Healthcare Facilities subindustry, Welltower'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.


Welltower Interest Coverage Distribution

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Welltower's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Welltower 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.

Welltower'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, Welltower's Interest Expense was $-608 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1,100 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $16,119 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*1100.218/-607.846
=1.81

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Welltower's Interest Expense was $-155 Mil. Its Operating Income was $286 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $16,119 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*286.123/-154.574
=1.85

* 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.


Welltower  (NYSE:WELL) 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 .


Welltower Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Welltower (Welltower) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
4500 Dorr Street, Toledo, OH, USA, 43615
Welltower owns a diversified healthcare portfolio of over 2,000 in-place properties spread across the senior housing, medical office, and skilled nursing/post-acute care sectors. The portfolio includes over 100 properties in both Canada and the United Kingdom as the company looks for additional investment opportunities in countries with mature healthcare systems that operate similarly to that of the United States.
Executives
John F. Burkart officer: EVP-Chief Operating Officer C/O ESSEX PROPERTY TRUST INC., 1100 PARK PLACE, SUITE 200, SAN MATEO CA 94403
Ade J. Patton director 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO DE 43515
Dennis G Lopez director 12700 HILL COUNTRY BOULEVARD, SUITE T-200, AUSTIN TX 78738
Philip L Hawkins director C/O CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST, 6711 COLUMBIA GATEWAY DRIVE, #300, COLUMBIA MD 21046
Diana Reid director 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
Ayesha Menon officer: SVP - Strategic Investments 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
Timothy Mchugh officer: SVP - Chief Financial Officer 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43515
Thomas J Derosa director C/O WELLTOWER INC., 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
John Goodey officer: Chief Financial Officer 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
Mercedes Kerr officer: EVP-Business Development 2449 GRIVEL PLACE, TUSTIN CA 92782
Kathryn M Sullivan director PO BOX 98029, BATON ROUGE LA 70898-9029
Johnese Spisso director 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
Karen B Desalvo director 500 W MAIN STREET, LOUISVILLE KY 40202
Shankh Mitra officer: SVP, Finance & Investments 4500 DORR STREET, TOLEDO OH 43615
R Scott Trumbull director FRANKLIN ELECTRIC CO., INC., 9255 COVERDALE RD, FORT WAYNE IN 46809