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Vertex Pharmaceuticals VRTX Interest coverage

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.0B+7.8%
Gross profit$2.6B+7.8%
Operating income$1.1B+80.6%
Net income$1.0B+59.6%
EPS (diluted)$4.02+61.4%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$5.5B+17.5%
Total debt$2.0B+20.5%
Total equity$19.4B+17.4%
Total assets$26.5B+15.8%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.4B+74.4%
CapEx$133.4M+228%
Free cash flow$1.3B+66.4%

Valuation

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Market cap$114.63B-8.9%
Enterprise value$111.11B-9.5%
P/E26.4×
P/S9.4×-2.0×

Profitability

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Gross margin86.2%+0.2pp
Operating margin38.3%
Net margin35.5%
FCF margin30.4%+20.2pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity24.2%
Debt / equity0.1×0.0×
Current ratio+0.4×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s 10-Q, filed May 5, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Vertex Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage?
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) reported interest coverage of 313.8× in Q4 2025.
How has Vertex Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
Vertex Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage increased by 8128.2% year-over-year, from -3.9× to 313.8×.
What is the long-term trend for Vertex Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage?
Over 4 years (2020 to 2025), Vertex Pharmaceuticals's interest coverage has grown at a 59.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 49.1× to 313.8×.
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.