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. Furmanite's quick ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2015 was 3.40.
Furmanite has a quick ratio of 3.40. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Furmanite's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRM's Quick Ratio is not ranked *
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 1.28 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Quick Ratio only.
Furmanite Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Furmanite'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.
For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Furmanite'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.
Furmanite's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Construction Industry
For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Furmanite's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Furmanite's Quick Ratio falls into.
Furmanite 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.
Furmanite's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 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.
Furmanite (NYSE:FRM) 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.
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Furmanite Corp was incorporated in Delaware on January 23, 1953. It provides specialized technical services. The Company together with its subsidiaries conducts business under two operating segments; Technical Services and Engineering & Project Solutions. Technical Services provides specialized technical services, including on-line, off-line and other services. On-line services include leak sealing, hot tapping, line stopping, line isolation, composite repair, valve testing and certain non-destructive testing and inspection services, while off-line services include on-site machining, heat treatment, bolting, valve repair and other non-destructive testing and inspection services. Other services include smart shim services, concrete repair, engineering services, valves and other products and manufacturing. These services and products are provided mainly to electric power generating plants, the petroleum industry, which includes refineries and off-shore drilling rigs, chemical plants and other process industries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific through a wholly owned subsidiary of the Parent Company, Furmanite Worldwide, Inc. and its domestic and international subsidiaries and affiliates. The Engineering & Project Solutions operating segment, which includes Furmanite Technical Solutions, provides project planning, professional engineering, downstream non-destructive testing and inspection, construction management, mechanical integrity, field support, quality assurance and plant asset management services, as well as certain other inspection and project management services. Customers include refining and petrochemical operators as well as maintenance, and engineering and construction contractors servicing the downstream and midstream oil and gas markets, all of which are in the Americas. The Company currently operates over 30 offices in the United States. The Company competes against large and well established national and international companies as well as regional and local companies. It also competes with the in-house maintenance departments of customers or potential customers. Many aspects of the Company's operations are subject to governmental regulation.
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