--- title: "United Parcel Service: Risk Monitoring" description: "United Parcel Service financial risk indicators from its SEC filings (leverage, liquidity, interest coverage, debt load) compared with peers." canonical: https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/risks/ source: "Swoopr Investment: https://www.getswoopr.com" --- # United Parcel Service: Risk & Monitoring Guide ## Direct Answer United Parcel Service's fiscal 2025 filings show no reading on these measures that stands out from common thresholds. These figures measure financial risk only; the business risks United Parcel Service itself considers material are listed under Item 1A, Risk Factors, of its Form 10-K, most recently filed February 17, 2026. ## What Do United Parcel Service's Financial Risk Indicators Show? | Indicator (fiscal 2025) | United Parcel Service | Peer median (same SIC major group) | What it measures | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Liabilities to assets | n/a | 55% | How much of the balance sheet is funded by obligations rather than equity. | | Current ratio | 1.2x | 1.2x | Short-term assets per dollar of obligations due within a year. | | Interest coverage | n/a | 10.8x | Operating income per dollar of interest expense. | | Long-term debt to operating cash flow | 2.8x | 0.9x | Years of operating cash flow it would take to repay long-term debt. | | Net debt | $17.7 billion | n/a | Long-term debt minus cash; negative means more cash than long-term debt. | The peer median uses 10 other companies in Swoopr's S&P 500 Equal Weight set that share the same two-digit SIC major group. A reading worse than the peer median is a prompt to read the filing, not a conclusion. ![Bar chart of United Parcel Service balance sheet at the end of fiscal 2025: total assets $73.1 billion, shareholders' equity $16.2 billion, long-term debt $23.6 billion, cash and equivalents $5.9 billion.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/united-parcel-service-risks-balance-sheet.webp) *United Parcel Service balance sheet items at the end of fiscal 2025, from the figures in the table above. Long-term debt is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.* ## Where Are United Parcel Service's Official Risk Factors? The risks United Parcel Service considers material are disclosed in Item 1A of its Form 10-K, most recently [filed February 17, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm). Read them with three questions in mind: which risks are specific to this company rather than generic, which have changed since the prior year's filing, and which connect to the figures above (a refinancing risk matters more when interest coverage is thin). ## Where These Numbers Come From Every figure on this page is a value United Parcel Service reported in its own SEC filings, read from the SEC's XBRL data (accession 0001628280-26-008432 for fiscal year 2025). Ratios are computed from those reported values. Figures were retrieved on October 7, 2026; a later amendment or a new annual report can change them, and the filing itself always takes precedence over this summary. Each fiscal year is labeled by the calendar year in which it ended, so a company that names the same period differently in its own filings (many retailers whose year ends in January) may use another label. A year is left out of the table when the SEC data set holds no value for it. A figure shown as "Not reported" means the company did not file a value under the standard tag Swoopr reads, not that the amount was zero. This page is educational and describes reported history only; it is not a forecast or a recommendation. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Is United Parcel Service highly leveraged? United Parcel Service did not report both total liabilities and total assets under the standard tags, so the ratio is not computed here. ### Where are United Parcel Service's official risk factors? In Item 1A, Risk Factors, of its annual report on Form 10-K, most recently filed with the SEC on February 17, 2026. The company lists the risks it considers material there; the measures on this page only quantify the financial side. ### Can United Parcel Service pay its interest? United Parcel Service did not report interest expense under the standard tags for fiscal 2025, so interest coverage is not computed here; its income statement and debt footnote show the details. ## References - [SEC EDGAR: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC Form 10-K filed February 17, 2026](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090727/000162828026008432/ups-20251231.htm) - [SEC EDGAR: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1090727&type=10-K) - [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces) ## Related Pages - [United Parcel Service company dossier](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/) - [United Parcel Service financial metrics](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/metrics/) - [United Parcel Service financial risk indicators](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/risks/) - [United Parcel Service peer comparison](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/competitors/) - [United Parcel Service business model and revenue mix](https://www.getswoopr.com/stocks/companies/united-parcel-service/business-model/) - [Fundamental analysis guides](https://www.getswoopr.com/learn/fundamental-analysis/) **[Swoopr Editorial Team](https://www.getswoopr.com/authors/swoopr-editorial-team/)** Swoopr's editorial team produces independent investment education content reviewed for accuracy and clarity. 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