Ratios and Their Meanings. Leverage Ratio
Ratios and Their Meanings. Leverage Ratio
Ratios and Their Meanings. Leverage Ratio
Leverage Ratio
Debt Ratio:
The debt ratio measures the amount of leverage used by a company in terms of total debt to
total assets. A debt ratio greater than 1.0 (100%) tells you that a company has
more debt than assets. Meanwhile, a debt ratio less than 100% indicates that a company has
more assets than debt.
TOL/TNWX:
This ratio measures the total leverage employed by the business; meaning that the firm has
used its net worth as a lever to raise outside funds.
Liquidity Ratio
current ratio:
The current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-
term obligations or those due within one year. It tells investors and analysts how a
company can maximize the current assets on its balance sheet to satisfy
its current debt and other payables.
Quick ratio:
The quick ratio indicates a company's capacity to pay its current liabilities without
needing to sell its inventory or get additional financing. ... The higher the ratio result,
the better a company's liquidity and financial health; the lower the ratio, the more
likely the company will struggle with paying debts.
Cash ratio:
The cash ratio is a measurement of a company's liquidity, specifically the ratio of a
company's total cash and cash equivalents to its current liabilities. The metric
calculates a company's ability to repay its short-term debt with cash or near-
cash resources, such as easily marketable securities.
Interval measure:
The interval measure provides information about how many days a company will
can continue to operate using the funds it has on hand.
Efficiency Ratios:
Sales-to-assets ratio:
The asset turnover ratio measures the value of a company's sales or revenues
relative to the value of its assets. The asset turnover ratio can be used as an
indicator of the efficiency with which a company is using its assets to generate
revenue.
Sales-to-net-working-capital:
The working capital turnover ratio is also referred to as net sales to working
capital. It indicates a company's effectiveness in using its working capital.
The working capital turnover ratio is calculated as
follows: net annual sales divided by the average amount of working capital during
the same year.
Inventory turnover is a ratio showing how many times a company has sold and
replaced inventory during a given period. A company can then divide the days in the
period by the inventory turnover formula to calculate the days it takes to sell
the inventory on hand.
The accounts receivable turnover ratio, also known as the debtor’s turnover ratio, is
an efficiency ratio that measures how efficiently a company is collecting revenue – and by
extension, how efficiently it is using its assets. The accounts receivable turnover ratio
measures the number of times over a given period that a company collects its
average accounts receivable.
The dividend payout ratio is the fraction of net income a firm pays to its stockholders in
dividends: The part of earnings not paid to investors is left for investment to provide for
future earnings growth.
The dividend yield or dividend-price ratio of a share is the dividend per share, divided by
the price per share. It is also a company's total annual dividend payments divided by its
market capitalization, assuming the number of shares is constant. It is often expressed as a
percentage.
In management accounting, the Cash conversion cycle measures how long a firm will be
deprived of cash if it increases its investment in inventory in order to expand customer sales.
It is thus a measure of the liquidity risk entailed by growth