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Nuance Communications (Nuance Communications) Interest Coverage : 0 (At Loss) (As of Dec. 2021)


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What is Nuance Communications 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. Nuance Communications's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2021 was $-13 Mil. Nuance Communications's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2021 was $-13 Mil. did not have earnings to cover the interest expense. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

NUAN' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.17   Med: 0.74   Max: 2.27
Current: 1.03


NUAN's Interest Coverage is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 29.34 vs NUAN: 1.03

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


Nuance Communications Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Nuance Communications'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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Nuance Communications Interest Coverage Chart

Nuance Communications Annual Data
Trend Sep12 Sep13 Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21
Interest Coverage
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.66 0.38 0.66 0.84 1.58

Nuance Communications Quarterly Data
Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21
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 1.73 1.91 1.22 1.19 -

Competitive Comparison of Nuance Communications's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Application subindustry, Nuance Communications'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.


Nuance Communications's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Nuance Communications 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.

Nuance Communications's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2021 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2021, Nuance Communications's Interest Expense was $-78 Mil. Its Operating Income was $123 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $580 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Sep. 2021 )/Interest Expense (A: Sep. 2021 )
=-1*122.696/-77.733
=1.58

Nuance Communications's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2021 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2021, Nuance Communications's Interest Expense was $-13 Mil. Its Operating Income was $-13 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $576 Mil.

Nuance Communications did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

* 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.


Nuance Communications  (NAS:NUAN) 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 .


Nuance Communications Interest Coverage Related Terms

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Nuance Communications (Nuance Communications) Business Description

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Address
1 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA, USA, 01803
Nuance Communications Inc is the pioneer in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand, analyze, and respond to people amplifying human intelligence to increase productivity and security. Its operating segment includes Healthcare; Enterprise; and Other. The company generates maximum revenue from the Healthcare segment. Its Healthcare segment is primarily engaged in providing clinical speech and clinical language understanding solutions that improve the clinical documentation process, from capturing the complete patient record to improving clinical documentation and quality measures for reimbursement. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the United States.
Executives
Lloyd Carney director C/O MICROMUSE INC, 139 TOWNSEND ST, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Robert Dahdah officer: Executive Vice President and C C/O NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. ONE WAYSIDE ROAD BURLINGTON MA 01803
Mark D Benjamin director, officer: Chief Executive Officer NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 1 WAYSIDE ROAD, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Robert Weideman officer: EVP & GM, Enterprise Division C/O SCANSOFT INC 9 CENTENNIAL DR PEABODY MA 01960
Daniel David Tempesta officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer ONE WAYSIDE ROAD, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Sanjay Vaswani director
Joseph Carl Petro officer: Executive Vice President & Chi THREE RAVINIA DRIVE ATLANTA 2Q 30346
Arthur G. Giterman officer: SVP & Chief Accounting Officer 26 ELDRED STREET LEXINGTON MA 02420
Wendy Cassity officer: EVP & Chief Legal Officer C/O XPO, INC., FIVE AMERICAN LANE, GREENWICH CT 06831
Thomas L Beaudoin officer: EVP, Business Transformation NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 1 WAYSIDE ROAD, BURLINGTON MA 01803
Mark R Laret director VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC 3100 HANSEN WAY MAIL STOP E327 PALO ALTO CA 94304
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Thomas D Ebling director C/O DEMANDWARE, INC. 5 WALL STREET BURLINGTON MA 01803
Laura S. Kaiser director 10101 WOODFIELD LANE, ST. LOUIS MO 63132

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