The quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets. It is calculated as a company's Total Current Assets excludes Total Inventories divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Virgin Media's quick ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2013 was 0.76.
Virgin Media has a quick ratio of 0.76. It indicates that the company cannot currently fully pay back its current liabilities.
The historical rank and industry rank for Virgin Media's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:N5T's Quick Ratio is not ranked *
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 1.46 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Quick Ratio only.
Virgin Media Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Virgin Media's Quick 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 Virgin Media's Quick Ratio
For the Broadcasting subindustry, Virgin Media's Quick Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Quick 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.
Virgin Media's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Virgin Media's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Virgin Media's Quick Ratio falls into.
Virgin Media Quick Ratio Calculation
The quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets. For this reason, the ratio excludes inventories from current assets.
Virgin Media's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 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.
Virgin Media (FRA:N5T) Quick Ratio Explanation
The quick ratio is more conservative than the Current Ratio because it excludes inventories from current assets. The ratio derives its name presumably from the fact that assets such as cash and marketable securities are quick sources of cash. Inventories generally take time to be converted into cash, and if they have to be sold quickly, the company may have to accept a lower price than book value of these inventories. As a result, they are justifiably excluded from assets that are ready sources of immediate cash.
In general, low or decreasing quick ratios generally suggest that a company is over-leveraged, struggling to maintain or grow sales, paying bills too quickly or collecting receivables too slowly. On the other hand, a high or increasing quick ratio generally indicates that a company is experiencing solid top-line growth, quickly converting receivables into cash, and easily able to cover its financial obligations. Such companies often have faster inventory turnover and cash conversion cycles.
The higher the quick ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.
Virgin Media Quick Ratio Related Terms
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Virgin Media Inc is engaged in the entertainment and communications business, being a quad-play provider of broadband internet, television, mobile telephony and fixed line telephony services that offer a variety of entertainment and communications services to residential and commercial customers throughout the U.K. The group is a provider of residential broadband internet, pay television and fixed line telephony services by number of customers. In addition, it provides a complete portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers in the U.K. through Virgin Media Business. Its two reporting segments are Consumer and Business. Consumer segment includes the distribution of television programming over the cable network and the provision of broadband and fixed line telephone services to residential consumers, both on and off the cable network. The Consumer segment faces competition from BT, British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, or BSkyB, TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, or TalkTalk, Vodafone, EE and O2. Business segment includes the voice and data telecommunication and internet solutions services that provide through its cable network and third party networks to businesses, public sector organizations and service providers. The Business segment is managed through Virgin Media Business offers a broad portfolio of voice, data and internet solutions to commercial and public sector organizations in the U.K., ranging from analog telephony to managed data networks and applications. Virgin Media Business competes primarily with traditional network operators such as BT and C&W. It also competes with regional providers, such as COLTTelecom Group PLC.
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