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Cleanaway Waste Management (ASX:CWY) Interest Coverage : 3.00 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cleanaway Waste Management 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. Cleanaway Waste Management's Operating Income for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$137 Mil. Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Expense for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$-46 Mil. Cleanaway Waste Management's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.00. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

ASX:CWY' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.08   Med: 3.48   Max: 10.62
Current: 1.78


ASX:CWY's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
83.53% of 170 companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 5.035 vs ASX:CWY: 1.78

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


Cleanaway Waste Management Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cleanaway Waste Management'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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Cleanaway Waste Management Interest Coverage Chart

Cleanaway Waste Management Annual Data
Trend Jun14 Jun15 Jun16 Jun17 Jun18 Jun19 Jun20 Jun21 Jun22 Jun23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.07 4.48 10.62 4.17 1.46

Cleanaway Waste Management Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
Interest Coverage Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 5.37 3.01 2.67 0.42 3.00

Competitive Comparison of Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage

For the Waste Management subindustry, Cleanaway Waste Management'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.


Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage falls into.



Cleanaway Waste Management 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.

Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2023, Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Expense was A$-76 Mil. Its Operating Income was A$111 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was A$1,491 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Jun. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Jun. 2023 )
=-1*110.9/-75.7
=1.46

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

Here, for the six months ended in Dec. 2023, Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Expense was A$-46 Mil. Its Operating Income was A$137 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was A$1,581 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*136.5/-45.5
=3.00

* 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.


Cleanaway Waste Management  (ASX:CWY) 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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Cleanaway Waste Management (ASX:CWY) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
441 St Kilda Road, Level 4, Melbourne, VIC, AUS, 3004
Cleanaway Waste Management is Australia's largest waste management business with a national footprint spanning collection, midstream waste processing, treatment, and valorization, and downstream waste disposal. Cleanaway is active in municipal and commercial and industrial, or C&I, waste stream segments and in nonhazardous and hazardous liquid waste and medical waste streams following the acquisition of Toxfree in fiscal 2018. While Cleanaway is allocating greater capital to midstream waste processing and treatment, earnings remain skewed toward waste collection. Cleanaway is particularly strong in C&I and municipal waste collection with strong market share in all large Australian metro waste collection market.

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