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Datalink (Datalink) Inventory Turnover : 6.99 (As of Sep. 2016)


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What is Datalink Inventory Turnover?

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. It is calculated as Cost of Goods Sold divided by Total Inventories. Datalink's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was $151.0 Mil. Datalink's Average Total Inventories for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was $21.6 Mil. Datalink's Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was 6.99.

Days Inventory indicates the number of days of goods in sales that a company has in the inventory. Datalink's Days Inventory for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was 13.05.

Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue. Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was 0.12.


Datalink Inventory Turnover Historical Data

The historical data trend for Datalink's Inventory Turnover can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Datalink Inventory Turnover Chart

Datalink Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Inventory Turnover
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Datalink Quarterly Data
Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16
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Datalink Inventory Turnover Calculation

Datalink's Inventory Turnover for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Inventory Turnover (A: Dec. 2015 )
=Cost of Goods Sold / Average Total Inventories
=Cost of Goods Sold (A: Dec. 2015 ) / ((Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2014 ) + Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2015 )) / count )
=621.335 / ((25.482 + 24.613) / 2 )
=621.335 / 25.0475
=24.81

Datalink's Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as

Inventory Turnover (Q: Sep. 2016 )
=Cost of Goods Sold / Average Total Inventories
=Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Sep. 2016 ) / ((Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2016 ) + Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2016 )) / count )
=151.008 / ((25.25 + 17.927) / 2 )
=151.008 / 21.5885
=6.99

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Datalink  (NAS:DTLK) Inventory Turnover Explanation

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. A higher Inventory Turnover means the company has light inventory. Therefore the company spends less money on storage, write downs, and obsolete inventory. If the inventory is too light, it may affect sales because the company may not have enough to meet demand.

1. Days Inventory indicates the number of days of goods in sales that a company has in the inventory.

Datalink's Days Inventory for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as:

Days Inventory =Average Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2016 )/Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Sep. 2016 )*Days in Period
=21.5885/151.008*365 / 4
=13.05

2. Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue.

Datalink's Inventory to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 is calculated as

Inventory-to-Revenue=Average Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2016 ) / Revenue (Q: Sep. 2016 )
=21.5885 / 183.972
=0.12

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Usually retailers pile up their inventories at holiday seasons to meet the stronger demand. Therefore, the inventory of a particular quarter of a year should not be used to calculate Inventory Turnover. An average inventory is a better indication.


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Datalink (Datalink) Business Description

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Datalink Corp was incorporated in the State of Minnesota in 1987. It provides solutions and services that make data centers efficient, manageable and responsive to changing business needs. The Company assesses designs, deploys, manages, and offers support unified infrastructures such as servers, storage and networks. It offers full suite of practice-specific consulting, analysis, design, implementation, management, and support services. The Company has a physical laboratory that customers can visit in Minneapolis enabling them to participate in physical demonstrations of a variety of technologies, including: site-to-site replication, data recovery, WAN optimization, de-duplication, and virtual data center architectures. It leverages this lab to test, validate and compare technologies from manufacturers and software developers, perform configuration services, troubleshoot support issues and train its professional and support services teams. It provides around the clock technical support from a team of customer support and field engineers. The Company provides analysis, design, implementation, management and support services to customers through either a stand-alone services engagement or as a part of an overall project that includes a server, storage and networking solutions and services. Its portfolio of solutions and services spans four practices: Consolidation and virtualization; Data storage and protection; and Business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. The Company does not manufacture products, but works with end users to assess their information-storage and retrieval requirements and then designs the solutions. Its customers include computer technology, financial service, insurance, telecommunications, consumer product, Internet, and transportation companies across the United States.
Executives
James E Ousley director BELL MICRO, 1941 RINGWOOD AVE., SAN JOSE CA 95131
Brent G Blackey director 8170 UPLAND CIRCLE, CHANHASSEN MN 55317
Paul F Lidsky director, officer: President & CEO 10340 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 150, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55344
Mercedes Walton director
Gregory T Barnum officer: CFO
Robert M Price director 5225 GRANDVIEW SQUARE, APT 204, EDINA MN 55436
Margaret A Loftus director 2305 CIRCULA DEANZA, TUBAC AZ 85646
James D Leslie officer: EVP, Strategy & Business Devel 10050 CROSSTOWN CIRCLE, SUITE 500, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55344
Karen E. Clary officer: Exec VP Human Resources 8170 UPLAND CIRCLE CHANHASSEN MN 55317

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