API Group (LSE:APIA) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : £7.31 Mil (As of Sep. 2014)

API Group Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Chart

API Group Annual Data
	Trend	Sep04	Sep05	Sep06	Mar08	Mar09	Mar10	Mar11	Mar12	Mar13	Mar14
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.04	4.18	10.54	6.37	9.20

API Group Semi-Annual Data
	Sep04	Mar05	Sep05	Mar06	Sep06	Mar07	Sep07	Sep08	Mar09	Sep09	Mar10	Sep10	Mar11	Sep11	Mar12	Sep12	Mar13	Sep13	Mar14	Sep14
Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															7.04	6.37	2.01	9.20	7.31

API Group Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Calculation

Cash and cash equivalents are the most liquid assets on the balance sheet. Cash equivalents are assets that are readily convertible into cash, such as money market holdings, short-term government bonds or Treasury bills, marketable securities and commercial paper.

Marketable Securities are very liquid securities that can be converted into cash quickly at a reasonable price.

API Group  (LSE:APIA) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Explanation

Marketable securities are very liquid as they tend to have maturities of less than one year. Furthermore, the rate at which these securities can be bought or sold has little effect on their prices.

A high number means either:

1) The company has competitive advantage generating lots of cash

2) Just sold a business or bonds (not necessarily good)

A low stockpile of cash usually means poor to mediocre economics.

There are 3 ways to create large cash reserve.

1) Sell new bonds or equity to public

2) Sell business or asset

3) It has an ongoing business generating more cash than it burns (usually means durable competitive advantage)

When a company is suffering a short term problem, Buffett looks at cash or marketable securities to see whether it has the financial strength to ride it out.

Important: Lots of cash and marketable securities + little debt = good chance that the business will sail on through tough times.

Test to see what is creating cash by looking at past 7 yrs of balance sheets. This will reveal how the cash was created.

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