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Uber Technologies (Uber Technologies) Interest Coverage : 4.21 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Uber Technologies 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. Uber Technologies's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $652 Mil. Uber Technologies's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-155 Mil. Uber Technologies's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 4.21. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

UBER' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.75   Med: 1.75   Max: 1.75
Current: 1.75


UBER's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
90.89% of 1602 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 29.35 vs UBER: 1.75

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


Uber Technologies Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Uber Technologies'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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Uber Technologies Interest Coverage Chart

Uber Technologies Annual Data
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Interest Coverage
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Uber Technologies Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Uber Technologies's Interest Coverage

For the Software - Application subindustry, Uber Technologies'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.


Uber Technologies's Interest Coverage Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Uber Technologies 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.

Uber Technologies'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, Uber Technologies's Interest Expense was $-633 Mil. Its Operating Income was $1,110 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $11,009 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*1110/-633
=1.75

Uber Technologies's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Uber Technologies's Interest Expense was $-155 Mil. Its Operating Income was $652 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $11,009 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*652/-155
=4.21

* 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.


Uber Technologies  (NYSE:UBER) 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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Uber Technologies (Uber Technologies) Business Description

Address
1515 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94158
Uber Technologies is a technology provider that matches riders with drivers, hungry people with restaurants and food delivery service providers, and shippers with carriers. The firm's on-demand technology platform could eventually be used for additional products and services, such as autonomous vehicles, delivery via drones, and Uber Elevate, which, as the firm refers to it, provides "aerial ride-sharing." Uber Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and operates in over 63 countries with over 131 million users that order rides or food at least once a month. Approximately 44% of its gross revenue comes from ridesharing and 34% from food delivery.
Executives
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