What is SciQuest Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities?
SciQuest's quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities
increased
from Sep. 2015 ($136.06 Mil) to Dec. 2015 ($142.51 Mil) but then
stayed the same
from Dec. 2015 ($142.51 Mil) to Mar. 2016 ($136.32 Mil).
SciQuest's annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities
increased
from Dec. 2013 ($34.22 Mil) to Dec. 2014 ($130.91 Mil) and
increased
from Dec. 2014 ($130.91 Mil) to Dec. 2015 ($142.51 Mil).
SciQuest Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data
The historical data trend for SciQuest's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities 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.
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.
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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SciQuest Inc was incorporated in November, 1995. The Company provides cloud-based business automation solutions for spend management. Its solutions include spend analytics solutions that cleanse and classify spend data from a wide variety of sources and formats putting data and analytics to work to drive and measure cost savings; sourcing solutions that create events, manage bids and award contracts automatically to simplify and optimize the bidding process; supplier management solutions that facilitate on-boarding, maintaining and managing supplier relationships and give visibility into which suppliers are able to support goals; contract lifecycle management solutions that automate the contract lifecycle from contract authoring, automated workflow approvals to a fully searchable archive of executed contracts; procurement solutions that automate the purchasing process and drive contract compliance; inventory management solutions that facilitate finding, sourcing and tracking chemicals and research supplies; accounts payable solutions that automate the invoice processing and vendor payment processes; and a supplier network that provides a single platform for all supplier interactions. Its spend management solutions provide a return on investment for its customers by facilitating the reduction of spending on goods and services, enhancing visibility and control over spending decisions and practices as well as optimizing the efficiency of key business processes. The procurement, supplier management and accounts payable solutions leverage its managed Company Supplier Network, which facilitates its customers doing business with many thousands of suppliers and spending billions of dollars annually. The Company delivers cloud-based solutions using a Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, model. The Company offers its customers various services including Client Partners, Supplier Enablement Services, Implementation Services, Customer Support, and Business Process Optimization Services. The Company competes with relatively small specialty software vendors, large ERP vendors and internally developed and maintained solutions. Specialty vendors or niche providers that compete with one or more or the Company's solutions, including Aravo, Basware, BravoSolution, Coupa, Determine, ESM Solutions, GXS, Hubwoo, OB10, Perfect Commerce, Periscope, Verian and Zycus; and Enterprise software application vendors, including SAP AG, Oracle, IBM, Infor and Workday.
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