Polycom (FRA:PLY) Capex-to-Revenue : 0.03 (As of Jun. 2016)

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What is Polycom Capex-to-Revenue?

Capex-to-Revenue measures a company's investments in physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment to its revenue.

Polycom's Capital Expenditure for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €-6.58 Mil. Its Revenue for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was €256.12 Mil.

Hence, Polycom's Capex-to-Revenue for the three months ended in Jun. 2016 was 0.03.

Polycom Capex-to-Revenue Historical Data

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

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Competitive Comparison of Polycom's Capex-to-Revenue

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Polycom's Capex-to-Revenue, along with its competitors' market caps and Capex-to-Revenue data, can be viewed below:

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Polycom's Capex-to-Revenue Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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Polycom Capex-to-Revenue Calculation

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

Capex-to-Revenue	=	- Capital Expenditure	/	Revenue
	=	- (-48.384)	/	1163.313
	=	0.04

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

Capex-to-Revenue	=	- Capital Expenditure	/	Revenue
	=	- (-6.577)	/	256.123
	=	0.03

Polycom (FRA:PLY) Capex-to-Revenue Explanation

Capex-to-Revenue measures a company's investments in physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment to its revenue. The ratio shows how aggressively the company reinvests its revenue back into productive assets. However, a high ratio potentially indicates that the company has invested too much in innovation and infrastructure, taking up funds that could be used to boost productivity and increase revenue. Therefore, a high Capex to Revenue Ratio could be a positive or a negative sign depending on how effectively a company converts those investments into future earnings.

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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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