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Pactiv Evergreen (FRA:PEG) Interest Coverage : 1.47 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Pactiv Evergreen 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. Pactiv Evergreen's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was €81 Mil. Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was €-55 Mil. Pactiv Evergreen's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 1.47. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

FRA:PEG' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.66   Med: 0.96   Max: 1.98
Current: 1.2


FRA:PEG's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
89.1% of 312 companies
in the Packaging & Containers industry
Industry Median: 6.76 vs FRA:PEG: 1.20

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


Pactiv Evergreen Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pactiv Evergreen'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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Pactiv Evergreen Interest Coverage Chart

Pactiv Evergreen Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.87 0.69 0.66 1.93 0.77

Pactiv Evergreen Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 - - 2.25 2.00 1.47

Competitive Comparison of Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Coverage

For the Packaging & Containers subindustry, Pactiv Evergreen'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.


Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Packaging & Containers Industry

For the Packaging & Containers industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pactiv Evergreen 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.

Pactiv Evergreen'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, Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Expense was €-236 Mil. Its Operating Income was €181 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €3,474 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*180.649/-235.669
=0.77

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Pactiv Evergreen's Interest Expense was €-55 Mil. Its Operating Income was €81 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was €3,496 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*80.96/-55.2
=1.47

* 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.


Pactiv Evergreen  (FRA:PEG) 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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Pactiv Evergreen (FRA:PEG) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1900 West Field Court, Lake Forest, IL, USA, 60045
Pactiv Evergreen Inc is engaged in the business of manufacturing and distributing fresh foodservice and food merchandising products and fresh beverage cartons. It operates in three segments: Foodservice, Food Merchandising, and Beverage Merchandising. These segments manufacture a broad range of products such as food containers, drinkware, tableware, service ware, ready-to-eat food containers, clear rigid-display containers, trays for meat and poultry, molded fiber egg cartons, printed cartons, spouts & filling machines, and other products. The company's geographical segments are the United States, the Rest of North America, and Others, of which the vast majority of its revenue comes from the United States.