Polycom (FRA:PLY) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow : 0.38 (As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Polycom Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow?

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow assesses how much of a company’s cash flow from operations is being devoted to capital expenditure. It’s also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not.

Polycom's Capital Expenditure for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €-6.58 Mil. Its Cash Flow from Operations for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €17.24 Mil.

Hence, Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.38.

Polycom Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow can be seen below:

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Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															0.42	0.46	0.47	0.14	0.38

Competitive Comparison of Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow 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.

Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow falls into.

Polycom Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Calculation

Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow	=	- Capital Expenditure	/	Cash Flow from Operations
	=	- (-48.384)	/	109.746
	=	0.44

Polycom's Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2016 is calculated as

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow	=	- Capital Expenditure	/	Cash Flow from Operations
	=	- (-6.577)	/	17.242
	=	0.38

Polycom (FRA:PLY) Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow Explanation

Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio assesses how much of a company’s Cash Flow from Operations is being devoted to Capital Expenditure. It is a good indicator in terms of how much the company is focused on growth. In general, a high Capex-to-Operating-Cash-Flow ratio indicates that the company is investing more in physical assets and is focused on growth and expansion. Conversely, lower ratio could indicate that a company has reached maturity and is no longer pursuing aggressive growth.

Moreover, the ratio is also useful to distinguish whether the company is capital intensive or not. If the ratio is large, then the company tends to be capital intensive. Lower ratio suggests that it’s a capital-light business. The ratio can be combined with ROIC % to identify whether the company is an asset-light business that has a high return on invested capital. This is one question investors commonly ask to see if a company qualifies as a good company.

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Polycom Inc was incorporated in December 1990 in Delaware. The Company provides an open, standards-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for voice, video and content collaboration solutions. Its solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, comprehensive software infrastructure and rich application programming interfaces (APIs) that interoperate with a set of communication, business, mobile, and cloud applications and devices to deliver secure face-to-face video collaboration across different environments. The Company is engaged in helping organizations achieve new levels of teamwork, efficiency and productivity by unleashing the power of human collaboration. The Company sells its solutions through a high-touch sales model that leverages its network of channel partners, including distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators; communications services providers, and retailers. The Company serves in three geographical segments; Americas, EMEA and APAC. Its products and solutions are; UC Group Systems, which includes immersive telepresence, group video and group voice systems. UC Platform, which includes collaboration servers, virtualization management "distributed media optimization", resource management, recording and streaming, open API's and remote access technologies that constitute the RealPresence Platform, and UC Personal Devices, which includes desktop video devices and desktop voice products. It competes in the UC&C market with products and solutions that enable voice, video and content collaboration on-premises, across intranets, extranets, mobile devices, and the Internet via its customer premises-based RealPresence Platform, web-based social-collaboration business platforms, and video collaboration-as-a-service offerings delivered from the cloud. These competitors include but are not limited to Cisco Systems, Inc., Acano, Avaya Inc., Blue Jeans Networks, Inc., ClearOne Communications, Inc., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Logitech International S.A./LifeSize, PexIP, Snom Technology Ag, Vidyo, Inc., Yamaha Corporation/Revolabs, Inc., Yealink, ZTE Corporation and others. Its products and services are subject to various federal, state, local, and foreign laws and regulations.

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