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Sabre (SABR) Interest Coverage : 0.79 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Sabre 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. Sabre's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $98 Mil. Sabre's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-125 Mil. Sabre's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.79. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Sabre Corps earnings cannot cover its interest expense. If the situation continues, the company may have to issue more debt.

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

SABR' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.11   Med: 2.65   Max: 3.73
Current: 0.31


SABR's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
98.38% of 1606 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 28.9 vs SABR: 0.31

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


Sabre Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sabre'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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Sabre Interest Coverage Chart

Sabre Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
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Sabre Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Sabre's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Sabre'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.


Sabre's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Sabre's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Sabre 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.

Sabre'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, Sabre's Interest Expense was $-448 Mil. Its Operating Income was $47 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,886 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*47.143/-447.878
=0.11

Sabre's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Sabre's Interest Expense was $-125 Mil. Its Operating Income was $98 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,985 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*98.085/-124.747
=0.79

* 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.


Sabre  (NAS:SABR) 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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Sabre (SABR) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
3150 Sabre Drive, Southlake, TX, USA, 76092
Sabre holds the number-two air booking volume share in the global distribution system industry. The travel solutions segment represented 91% of total 2022 revenue, split between distribution (70% of segment sales) and airline IT solutions (30%) revenue. The company also has a growing hotel IT solutions division (10% of revenue). Transaction fees, which are mostly tied to volume and not price, account for the bulk of sales and profits.
Executives
Sean E Menke officer: Executive Vice President C/O IHS INC., 15 INVERNESS WAY EAST, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Joe Difonzo officer: Executive Vice President 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
Gail Mandel director 22 SYLVAN WAY, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Michael O Randolfi officer: Executive Vice President, CFO C/O ORBITZ WORLDWIDE, 500 W. MADISON, SUITE 1000, CHICAGO IL 60661
Kurt Joseph Ekert officer: President MORRIS CORPORATE CENTER III, 400 INTERPACE PKWY, BLDG A, PARSIPPANY NJ 07054
Ann J. Bruder officer: EVP and Chief Legal Officer 6565 N. MACARTHUR BLVD., SUITE 800, IRVING TX 75039
Chadwick Ho officer: EVP and Chief Legal Officer 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
Garry R Wiseman officer: EVP and Chief Product Officer C/O NAUTILUS, INC., 17750 SE 6TH WAY, VANCOUVER WA 98683
Shawn G Williams officer: EVP and Chief People Officer 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
Cem Tanyel officer: EVP & Pres. Airline Solutions 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
David J Shirk officer: Executive Vice President C/O SABRE CORPORATION, 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
Phyllis Newhouse director 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092
Wendi Christine Sturgis director C/O THE CONTAINER STORE GROUP, INC., 500 FREEPORT PARKWAY, COPPELL TX 75019
John C Siciliano director C/O BKF CAPITAL GROUP, INC., ONE ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK NY 10020
Judson Wade Jones officer: Executive Vice President 3150 SABRE DRIVE, SOUTHLAKE TX 76092