Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0000785161-25-000003
Chunk: 2

Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 7.01
Chunk 2
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 leverage ratio and Adjusted EBITDA are measures of its ability to service its debt and its ability to make capital expenditures. Additionally, the leverage ratio is a standard measurement used by investors to gauge the creditworthiness of an institution. The Company’s credit agreement also includes a maximum leverage ratio financial covenant which allows the Company to deduct cash on hand from consolidated total debt. In calculating the leverage ratio under our credit agreement, we are permitted to use pro forma Adjusted EBITDA, the calculation of which includes historical income statement items and pro forma adjustments, subject to certain limitations, resulting from (1) dispositions and repayments or incurrence of debt and (2) investments, acquisitions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and other operational changes to the extent such items or effects are not yet reflected in our trailing four-quarter financial statements. The Company reconciles Adjusted EBITDA to net cash provided by operating activities and net income in the press release attached as Exhibit 99.1 and the supplemental information attached as Exhibit 99.2.

The Company uses Adjusted EBITDA on a consolidated basis as a liquidity measure. The Company believes this financial measure on a consolidated basis is important in analyzing its liquidity because it is the key component of certain material covenants contained within the Company’s credit agreement, which is discussed in more detail in Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,“ Liquidity and Capital Resources,” and Note 9, Long-term Debt, to the consolidated financial statements included in its Annual Report on Form 10‑ K for the year ended December 31, 2024 (the “2024 Form 10‑ K”), when filed. These covenants are material terms of the credit agreement. Noncompliance with these financial covenants under the credit agreement - its interest coverage ratio and its leverage ratio - could result in the Company’s lenders requiring the Company to immediately repay all amounts borrowed. If the Company anticipated a potential covenant violation, it would seek relief from its lenders, which would have some cost to the Company, and such relief might be on terms less favorable to those in the Company’s existing credit agreement. In addition, if the Company cannot satisfy these financial covenants, it would be prohibited under the credit agreement from engaging in certain activities, such as incurring additional indebtedness, paying common stock dividends, making certain payments, and acquiring and disposing of assets. Consequently, Adjusted EBITDA is critical to the Company’s assessment of its