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BCPC (Balchem) Cash-to-Debt : 0.24 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Balchem Cash-to-Debt?

Cash to Debt Ratio measures the financial strength of a company. It is calculated as a company's cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities divide by its debt. Balchem's cash to debt ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 0.24.

If Cash to Debt ratio is less than 1, the company cannot pay off its debt using the cash in hand. Here we can see, Balchem couldn't pay off its debt using the cash in hand for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025.

The historical rank and industry rank for Balchem's Cash-to-Debt or its related term are showing as below:

BCPC' s Cash-to-Debt Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.1   Med: 0.23   Max: 0.88
Current: 0.24

During the past 13 years, Balchem's highest Cash to Debt Ratio was 0.88. The lowest was 0.10. And the median was 0.23.

BCPC's Cash-to-Debt is ranked worse than
73.47% of 1557 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 0.72 vs BCPC: 0.24

Balchem Cash-to-Debt Historical Data

The historical data trend for Balchem's Cash-to-Debt 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.

Note: An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Balchem Cash-to-Debt Chart

Balchem Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cash-to-Debt
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.49 0.88 0.15 0.20 0.24

Balchem Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cash-to-Debt Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.19 0.22 0.30 0.24 0.24

Competitive Comparison of Balchem's Cash-to-Debt

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Balchem's Cash-to-Debt, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash-to-Debt 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.


Balchem's Cash-to-Debt Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Balchem's Cash-to-Debt distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Balchem's Cash-to-Debt falls into.


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Balchem Cash-to-Debt Calculation

This is the ratio of a company's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities to its debt. The debt includes the Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation. This ratio measures the financial strength of a company. This ratio is updated quarterly.

Balchem's Cash to Debt Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as:

Balchem's Cash to Debt Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

* 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.


Balchem  (NAS:BCPC) Cash-to-Debt Explanation

If Cash to Debt ratio is greater than 1, the company can pay off its debt using the cash in hand. If it is smaller than 1, it means the company has more debt than the cash in hands. In this case, it is important to look the the company's Interest Coverage. Ben Graham requires that a company must have an Interest Coverage of at least 5.


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Balchem Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Paragon Drive, Montvale, NJ, USA, 07645
Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for various industries. The company's reportable segments are; Human Nutrition and Health, which generates maximum revenue, and provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications; Animal Nutrition and Health, which provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride; and the Specialty Products segment includes re-packaging and distributing several performance gases and chemicals. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from the United States and the rest from foreign countries.
Executives
Van Gunsteren Job Leonard officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
William A. Backus officer: Chief Accounting Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Michael Robert Sestrick officer: Chief Technology Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
David B Fischer director 425 WINTER ROAD, DELAWARE OH 43015
Michael Bent Tignor officer: Chief Human Resources Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Matthew David Wineinger director 3605 GRAND VIEW COURT, ST CHARLES IL 60175
Theodore L Harris director, officer: President and CEO 5200 BLAZER PARKWAY, DUBLIN OH 43017
Olivier Rigaud director CORBION NV, PIET HEINKADE 127, AMSTERDAM P7 1019 GM
Monica Vicente director C/O FRESH DEL MONTE PRODUCE INC., P.O. BOX 149222, CORAL GABLES FL 33114
Frederic Boned officer: SVP/GM, Human Nutri. & Health 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Hatsuki Miyata officer: General Counsel and Secretary 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Jonathan Harrison Griffin officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Martin Luther Reid officer: Chief Supply Chain Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Kathleen B Fish director ONE PROCTER & GAMBLE PLAZA, CINCINNATI OH 45202
James C Hyde officer: Sr. Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958