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Cleanaway Waste Management (ASX:CWY) Financial Strength : 3 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Cleanaway Waste Management Financial Strength?

Cleanaway Waste Management has the Financial Strength Rank of 3. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.

Warning Sign:

Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd displays poor financial strength. Usually, this is caused by too much debt for the company.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 3.00. Cleanaway Waste Management's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 0.46. As of today, Cleanaway Waste Management's Altman Z-Score is 1.71.


Competitive Comparison of Cleanaway Waste Management's Financial Strength

For the Waste Management subindustry, Cleanaway Waste Management's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength 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.


Cleanaway Waste Management's Financial Strength Distribution in the Waste Management Industry

For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Cleanaway Waste Management's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cleanaway Waste Management's Financial Strength falls into.



Cleanaway Waste Management Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

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

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:

Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Expense for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$-46 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was A$137 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was A$1,581 Mil.

Cleanaway Waste Management's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*136.5/-45.5
=3.00

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Warning Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd interest coverage is 1.78, which is low.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Cleanaway Waste Management's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Dec. 2023 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(103.2 + 1580.6) / 3688.8
=0.46

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Cleanaway Waste Management has a Z-score of 1.71, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 1.71 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* 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.


Cleanaway Waste Management  (ASX:CWY) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Cleanaway Waste Management has the Financial Strength Rank of 3. It displays poor financial strength and is likely in financial distress. Usually this is caused by too much debt for the company.


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Cleanaway Waste Management (ASX:CWY) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
441 St Kilda Road, Level 4, Melbourne, VIC, AUS, 3004
Cleanaway Waste Management is Australia's largest waste management business with a national footprint spanning collection, midstream waste processing, treatment, and valorization, and downstream waste disposal. Cleanaway is active in municipal and commercial and industrial, or C&I, waste stream segments and in nonhazardous and hazardous liquid waste and medical waste streams following the acquisition of Toxfree in fiscal 2018. While Cleanaway is allocating greater capital to midstream waste processing and treatment, earnings remain skewed toward waste collection. Cleanaway is particularly strong in C&I and municipal waste collection with strong market share in all large Australian metro waste collection market.

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