The current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations. It is calculated as a company's Total Current Assets divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Outerwall's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 was 1.05.
Outerwall has a current ratio of 1.05. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Outerwall's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
OUTR's Current Ratio is not ranked *
in the Retail - Cyclical industry.
Industry Median: 1.59 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Current Ratio only.
Outerwall Current Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Outerwall's Current Ratio 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.
Competitive Comparison of Outerwall's Current Ratio
For the Specialty Retail subindustry, Outerwall's Current Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Current Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Outerwall's Current Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry
For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Outerwall's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Outerwall's Current Ratio falls into.
Outerwall Current Ratio Calculation
The current ratio is mainly used to give an idea of the company's ability to pay back its short-term liabilities with its short-term assets.
Outerwall's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
* 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.
Outerwall (NAS:OUTR) Current Ratio Explanation
The current ratio can give a sense of the efficiency of a company's operating cycle or its ability to turn its product into cash. Companies that have trouble getting paid on their receivables or have long inventory turnover can run into liquidity problems because they are unable to alleviate their obligations. Because business operations differ in each industry, it is always more useful to compare companies within the same industry.
Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry and are generally between 1 and 3 for healthy businesses.
The higher the current ratio, the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. A ratio under 1 suggests that the company would be unable to pay off its obligations if they came due at that point. While this shows the company is not in good financial health, it does not necessarily mean that it will go bankrupt - as there are many ways to access financing - but it is definitely not a good sign.
If all other things were equal, a creditor, who is expecting to be paid in the next 12 months, would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio means that the company is more likely to meet its liabilities which fall due in the next 12 months.
Outerwall Current Ratio Related Terms
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Outerwall Inc was incorporated in Delaware on October 12, 1993. The Company is a provider of automated retail solutions offering convenient products and services that benefit consumers and drive incremental retail traffic and revenue for retailers. The Company's automated retail includes its redbox segment where consumers can rent or purchase movies from self-service kiosks and its Coin segment where consumers can convert their coin to cash or stored value products at coin-counting self-service kiosks. The redbox business faces competition from many other providers, including those using other distribution channels. The coinstar business faces competition from supermarkets, banks and other companies that purchase and operate coin-counting equipment from companies such as ScanCoin, Cummins-Allison Corporation and others. The ecoATM business faces competition from the companies whose primary business consists of the purchase of used electronics, online retailers and web sites such as Gazelle, as well as brick and mortar stores which buy back used electronics. The business of the Company is subject to federal, state, local and foreign laws and government regulation.
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