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Datalink (Datalink) Inventory-to-Revenue : 0.12 (As of Sep. 2016)


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What is Datalink Inventory-to-Revenue?

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 Average Total Inventories for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was $21.6 Mil. Datalink's Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2016 was $184.0 Mil. Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was 0.12.

Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 declined from Jun. 2016 (0.13) to Jun. 2016 (0.12)

A decrease in the Inventory-to-Revenue from one quarter to next indicates that one of these is occurring:

1. investment in inventory is shrinking in relation to revenue
2. revenue are increasing
No matter which situation is causing the reduction in the Inventory-to-Revenue, either one suggests that business's inventory levels and its cash flow are effectively managed.

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 Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. Datalink's Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was 6.99.


Datalink Inventory-to-Revenue Historical Data

The historical data trend for Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue 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-to-Revenue Chart

Datalink Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
Inventory-to-Revenue
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.03

Datalink Quarterly Data
Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16
Inventory-to-Revenue Get a 7-Day Free Trial 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 0.14 0.14 0.15 0.13 0.12

Competitive Comparison of Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue

For the Computer Hardware subindustry, Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue, along with its competitors' market caps and Inventory-to-Revenue 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.


Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Datalink's Inventory-to-Revenue falls into.



Datalink Inventory-to-Revenue Calculation

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 fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Inventory-to-Revenue (A: Dec. 2015 )
=Average Total Inventories / Revenue
=( (Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2014 ) + Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2015 )) / count ) / Revenue (A: Dec. 2015 )
=( (25.482 + 24.613) / 2 ) / 764.765
=25.0475 / 764.765
=0.03

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

Inventory-to-Revenue (Q: Sep. 2016 )
=Average Total Inventories / Revenue
=( (Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2016 ) + Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2016 )) / count ) / Revenue (Q: Sep. 2016 )
=( (25.25 + 17.927) / 2 ) / 183.972
=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.


Datalink  (NAS:DTLK) Inventory-to-Revenue Explanation

An increase in Inventory-to-Revenue from one quarter to the next indicates that one of the following is happening:

1. investment in inventory is growing more rapidly than revenue
2. revenue are dropping
No matter which situation is causing the problem, an increase in the Inventory-to-Revenue may signal an oncoming cash flow problem.

Likewise, a decrease in the Inventory-to-Revenue from one quarter to next indicates that one of these is occurring:

1. investment in inventory is shrinking in relation to revenue
2. revenue are increasing
No matter which situation is causing the reduction in the Inventory-to-Revenue, either one suggests that business's inventory levels and its cash flow are effectively managed.

More Related Terms:

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 Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year.

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

Inventory Turnover=Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Sep. 2016 ) / Average Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2016 )
=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.


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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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