Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities : CHF45.7 Mil (As of Jun. 2014)

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What is Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities?

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's quarterly cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities increased from Jun. 2013 (CHF42.24 Mil) to Dec. 2013 (CHF43.42 Mil) and increased from Dec. 2013 (CHF43.42 Mil) to Jun. 2014 (CHF45.74 Mil).

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding's annual cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities declined from Dec. 2011 (CHF52.89 Mil) to Dec. 2012 (CHF40.79 Mil) but then increased from Dec. 2012 (CHF40.79 Mil) to Dec. 2013 (CHF43.42 Mil).

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Historical Data

The historical data trend for Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding'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.
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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities Chart

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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding Semi-Annual Data
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Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	Get a 7-Day Free Trial					40.03	40.79	42.24	43.42	45.74

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding 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.

Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding (XSWX:ADBN) 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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Advanced Digital Broadcast Holding SA was incorporated on July 26, 2004 in the Canton of Geneva. The Company is engaged in the development and sale of equipment, services and software for the digital television and broadband data communication industry, and relies on third party contract manufacturers for the production of equipment. In 2005, the Company made an initial public offering. It develops and delivers diverse products to the worldwide digital television industry, supplying digital set-top boxes across all television transmission platforms such as cable, IPTV, satellite and terrestrial. Its customers include digital television operators, consumer electronics manufacturers and retail distributors of digital set-top boxes. The Company is in system integration, incorporating the industry's middleware, conditional access and hardware technologies and provide technically superior products, service and support, in as short time as possible.

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