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Herc Holdings (Herc Holdings) Interest Coverage : 2.31 (As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Herc Holdings 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. Herc Holdings's Operating Income for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $141 Mil. Herc Holdings's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-61 Mil. Herc Holdings's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 2.31. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

HRI' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.76   Med: 2.6   Max: 4.76
Current: 2.87


HRI's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
80.86% of 789 companies
in the Business Services industry
Industry Median: 13.39 vs HRI: 2.87

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


Herc Holdings Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Herc Holdings'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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Herc Holdings Interest Coverage Chart

Herc Holdings 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 1.43 2.23 4.40 4.58 2.96

Herc Holdings 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 2.58 2.91 3.38 2.89 2.31

Competitive Comparison of Herc Holdings's Interest Coverage

For the Rental & Leasing Services subindustry, Herc Holdings'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.


Herc Holdings's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Herc Holdings's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

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



Herc Holdings 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.

Herc Holdings'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, Herc Holdings's Interest Expense was $-224 Mil. Its Operating Income was $663 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,423 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*663/-224
=2.96

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

Here, for the three months ended in Mar. 2024, Herc Holdings's Interest Expense was $-61 Mil. Its Operating Income was $141 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,561 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Mar. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Mar. 2024 )
=-1*141/-61
=2.31

* 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.


Herc Holdings  (NYSE:HRI) 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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Herc Holdings (Herc Holdings) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
27500 Riverview Center Boulevard, Bonita Springs, FL, USA, 34134
Herc Holdings is an equipment rental company that was spun out of Hertz Global in 2016. It is currently the third-largest equipment rental company (4% market share) in North America, after United Rentals and Sunbelt Rentals, with a fleet size of $6.2 billion. It serves commercial and residential construction customers, the environmental sector, industrial entities, and entertainment production companies. During much of its 50-year-plus history, the company has rented equipment such as aerial lifts to its customers for intermittent use. More recently, it has broadened its catalog to include a host of specialty items. Separately, Herc Holdings' strategy now incorporates long-term rentals to industrial customers where Herc maintains its own staff at the customer site.
Executives
Mark Alan Schumacher officer: VP, CAO and Controller 27500 RIVERVIEW CENTER BLVD, BONITA SPRINGS FL 34134
Lawrence Harris Silber director, officer: President & CEO 7 FOX HOLLOW COURT, FLEMINGTON NJ 08822
Christian J Cunningham officer: SVP & Chief HR Officer C/O HERC HOLDINGS INC., 27500 RIVERVIEW CENTER BLVD., BONITA SPRINGS FL 34134
Aaron Birnbaum officer: SVP & Chief Operating Officer 27500 RIVERVIEW CENTER BLVD., BONITA SPRINGS FL 34134
Carl C Icahn 10 percent owner C/O ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P., 16690 COLLINS AVE., PH-1, SUNNY ISLES BEACH FL 33160
Mark Irion officer: SVP & CFO C/O NEFF CORPORATION, SUITE 400, 3750 N.W. 87TH AVENUE, MIAMI FL 33178
Hunter Clark Gary director C/O ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P., 16690 COLLINS AVE., PH, SUNNY ISLES FL 33160
Steven D Miller director 16690 COLLINS AVENUE, PH, SUNNY ISLE BEACH FL 33160
Rakesh Sachdev director 3050 SPRUCE STREET, ST LOUIS MO 63103
James H Browning director 3760 JARDIN, HOUSTON TX 77005
Tamir Peres officer: SVP&Chief Information Officer 27500 RIVERVIEW CENTER BLVD., BONITA SPRINGS FL 34134
Andrew Teno director C/O FIR TREE INC., 55 WEST 46TH STREET, 29TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10036
Shari L Burgess director
Andrew Langham director C/O ICAHN ENTERPRISES L.P., 16690 COLLINS AVE., PH, SUNNY ISLES FL 33160
Herbert L Henkel director C/O INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY LIMITED, 155 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD, MONTVALE NJ 07645