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Empire Co (Empire Co) Current Ratio

: 0.80 (As of Jan. 2024)
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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. Empire Co's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 0.80.

Empire Co has a current ratio of 0.80. It indicates that the company may have difficulty meeting its current obligations. Low values, however, do not indicate a critical problem. If Empire Co has good long-term prospects, it may be able to borrow against those prospects to meet current obligations.

The historical rank and industry rank for Empire Co's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

EMLAF' s Current Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.75   Med: 0.87   Max: 1.19
Current: 0.8

During the past 13 years, Empire Co's highest Current Ratio was 1.19. The lowest was 0.75. And the median was 0.87.

EMLAF's Current Ratio is ranked worse than
81.27% of 315 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 1.29 vs EMLAF: 0.80

Empire Co Current Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Empire Co'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.

* Premium members only.

Array ( [0] => - [1] => - [2] => - [3] => - [4] => - [5] => 0.98 [6] => 0.80 [7] => 0.92 [8] => 0.76 [9] => 0.77 )
Empire Co Annual Data
Trend Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20 Apr21 Apr22 Apr23
Current Ratio
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.98 0.80 0.92 0.76 0.77

Empire Co Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Current Ratio Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.79 0.77 0.80 0.83 0.80

Competitive Comparison

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Empire Co'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.


Empire Co Current Ratio Distribution

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Empire Co's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Empire Co's Current Ratio falls into.



Empire Co 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.

Empire Co's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Current Ratio (A: Apr. 2023 )=Total Current Assets (A: Apr. 2023 )/Total Current Liabilities (A: Apr. 2023 )
=2191.486/2860.798
=0.77

Empire Co's Current Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as

Current Ratio (Q: Jan. 2024 )=Total Current Assets (Q: Jan. 2024 )/Total Current Liabilities (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=2190.345/2746.48
=0.80

* 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.


Empire Co  (OTCPK:EMLAF) 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.


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Empire Co (Empire Co) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
115 King Street, Stellarton, NS, CAN, B0K 1S0
Empire Co Ltd key businesses are food retailing, investments, and other operations. The food retailing division operates through Empire's subsidiary Sobeys and represents nearly all of the company's income. This segment owns, affiliates, or franchises more than 1,500 stores in 10 provinces, under retail banners including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawton's Drug Stores, and multiple retail fuel locations. The company's investment and other operations segment include the investment in Crombie REIT, which is an open-ended Canadian real estate investment trust, as well as the Genstar Development Partnership.

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