Lake Area Corn Processors LLC has a Cash Ratio of 0.97. It indicates that there are more current liabilities than Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities, and the company does not have sufficient cash on hand to pay off its short-term debt.
The historical rank and industry rank for Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
LKCRU'
s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.15 Med: 0.73 Max: 1.21
Current: 0.97
During the past 13 years, Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's highest Cash Ratio was 1.21. The lowest was 0.15. And the median was 0.73.
LKCRU's Cash Ratio is ranked better than 71.61% of 1025
companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 0.41
vs LKCRU: 0.97
Lake Area Corn Processors LLC Cash Ratio Historical Data
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio
For the Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing subindustry, Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash Ratio 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.
Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Lake Area Corn Processors LLC's Cash Ratio falls into.
Lake Area Corn Processors LLC Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
* 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.
Lake Area Corn Processors LLC (GREY:LKCRU) Cash Ratio Explanation
The cash ratio is more conservative than other liquidity ratios, such as Quick Ratio and Current Ratio, because it only considers a company's most liquid resources. The numerator of cash ratio only considers Cash, Cash Equivalents and marketable securities. Other current assets, such as accounts receivable and inventories, are not included. The rationale is that these assets may require time to be transformed into cash, and the amount of money received is also uncertain.
The cash ratio shows a company’s ability to pay all current liabilities immediately without selling or liquidating other assets. Generally speaking, a higher cash ratio suggests the company has a stronger ability to cover its short-term debt. However, a high cash ratio could also indicate inefficient management: the company is inefficient in making full utilization of cash to invest protential profitable project. It may also suggest that the company is not confident about future profitability.
In general, the higher the cash ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.
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Lake Area Corn Processors LLC (Lake Area Corn Processors LLC) Business Description
Lake Area Corn Processors LLC is a South Dakota limited liability company that owns and manages an ethanol plant that has a nameplate production capacity of 90 million gallons of ethanol per year through its wholly-owned subsidiary Dakota Ethanol, LLC. The principal products produced at the ethanol plant are fuel-grade ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil. The company reports its financial and operating performance in two segments production, which includes the manufacture and marketing of fuel-grade ethanol and co-products of the ethanol production process and ethanol-producing equity method investments, which consists of the aggregation of the company's two equity method operating segments of investment in Guardian Hankinson, LLC and investment in Ring-neck Energy & Feed, LLC.
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