STERIS STE Interest coverage
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Where this comes from
Calculated from STERIS’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: STERIS’s 10-K, filed May 29, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is STERIS's interest coverage?
- STERIS (STE) reported interest coverage of 18.1× in Q1 2026.
- How has STERIS's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- STERIS's interest coverage increased by 80.7% year-over-year, from 10× to 18.1×.
- What is the long-term trend for STERIS's interest coverage?
- Over 4 years (2022 to 2026), STERIS's interest coverage has grown at a 22.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 27.1× to 61.4×.
- What does interest coverage mean?
- How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
- How do you interpret interest coverage?
- Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
- How does interest coverage compare across companies?
- Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.