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Liquidity Ratios: Can You Meet Short Term Obligations with Current Resources?

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Liquidity Ratios: can you meet short term obligations with current resources?

Current Ratio

  • Creditors want high
  • Shareholders low
  • Short term solvency

Quick Ratio/Acid test

  • Inventories are least liquid
  • Pay off short term without selling inventory
  • If below avg, bad. Have to liquidate

Asset Management Ratios

TAT

  • Money made in sales for every dollar invested in assets
  • Below avg  not generating enough business relative to investment

FAT

  • How effectively using plant and equipment
  • inflation can cause problems
  • Fixed assets reported using historical cost
  • Mature firm  higher fixed assets turn over ratio (FAT ratio)

DSO

  • Average collection period
  • Number of days sales are in receivables
  • Above average  customers not paying on time

Inventory turn over

  • Inventory reported at cost
  • Inventory should be campred to cost. NOT TO SALES
  • COGS=cost of goods sold except depreciation + depreciation
  • Inventory turnover ratio=COGS/inventories

Debt Management Ratios: measure extent to which firm uses debt for finance business

Debt to Asset Ratio: how much assets financed with debt

Debt to equity ratio

Liabilities to Asset Ratio= extent of assets not finance with equity

TIE ( time interest earned) ratio

  • Interest coverage ratios
  • How much operating income can decline before cant pay interest
  • Interest is paid with pre tax dollars
  • Issues: interest is not the only fixed finance charge. Firms have lease payments
  • Issues: EBIT does not represent all cash flow
  • Used by long term bondholders

EBITDA coverage ratio: ability to service debt

  • Used for short term lenders like banks

Profitability Ratio: rate of return on sales and assets

Combined effects of liquidity, asset management and debt management

Net Profit Margin

  • If below average, inefficient operations or bad interest

Operating Profit Margin

  • Operation performance before interest expenses

Basic Earning Power (BEP) ratio

  • Earning power before taxes

Return on Total Asset (ROA)

  • Below average: low basic earning power/ high interest costs from too much debt

Return on Common Equity (ROE)

  • Stockholders invest to get a return, tells how well they are doing in accounting sene

Market value ratio: what investors think.

  • Relates stock price to cash flow, earning and value
  • Measures companies stocks against each other

PE Ratio

  • How much are investors willing to pay for a dollar of reported profits
  • High for firms with strong growth prospect
  • Low for risky firms

Price/Cash flow ratio

  • Performance before impact of interest
  • Measures operating performance

Market/Book Ratio

  • Book value per share
  • Companies with higher rates of return on equity have higher averages
  • Book value= Record of how much stockholders invested (PAST)
  • Market value: investors expectations of future cash flow (FUTURE)

Common Size Analysis

  • Income statement divided by sales
  • Balance sheet divided by assets
  • Compares income and balance statements over time and across companies

Du Pont Eqn

  • Ties ratios together
  • Focus on:
  • Expense control (profit margin)
  • Asset utilization ( total asset turn over )
  • Debt utilization ( equity multiplier)
  • Shows how factors combine to determine Return on Equity (ROE)
  • High financial leverage  high equity multiplier

Problems with Ratio Analysis

  • Different divisions  make it harder to compare industry averages
  • Industry average doesn’t provide challenging target
  • Inflation affects balance sheet and net income, distorting analysis
  • Seasonal factors
  • Window dressings make them look better
  • Different accounting and operating practices

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