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Salesforce (Salesforce) Interest Coverage

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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. Salesforce's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $1,795 Mil. Salesforce's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $0 Mil. GuruFocus does not calculate 's interest coverage with the available data. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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


CRM's Interest Coverage is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 29.77
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Interest Coverage only.

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


Salesforce Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Salesforce'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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Salesforce Annual Data
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Salesforce Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce'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.


Salesforce Interest Coverage Distribution

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

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



Salesforce 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.

Salesforce's Interest Coverage for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024, Salesforce's Interest Expense was $0 Mil. Its Operating Income was $5,999 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $11,071 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Salesforce's interest coverage with the available data.

Salesforce's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Jan. 2024, Salesforce's Interest Expense was $0 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1,795 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $11,071 Mil.

GuruFocus does not calculate Salesforce's interest coverage with the available data.

* 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.


Salesforce  (NYSE:CRM) 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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Salesforce (Salesforce) Business Description

Address
415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94105
Salesforce Inc provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.
Executives
Brian Millham officer: President and COO 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 90403
Sundeep G. Reddy officer: EVP & Chief Accounting Officer 6555 NORTH STATE HWY 161, IRVING TX 75039
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Parker Harris director, officer: Co-Founder and CTO THE LANDMARK @ ONE MARKET, SUITE 300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Marc Benioff director, officer: Chairman of the Board & CEO 50 FREMONT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Brent Hyder officer: President/Chief People Officer 415 MISSION STREET, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Miguel Milano officer: President and CRO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Sabastian Niles officer: President and CLO 415 MISSION ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
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