Vistagen Therapeutics has a Cash Ratio of 30.39. It generally indicates that the company is able to cover all short-term debt and still have cash remaining.
The historical rank and industry rank for Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
VTGN'
s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.04 Med: 3.75 Max: 35
Current: 30.39
During the past 13 years, Vistagen Therapeutics's highest Cash Ratio was 35.00. The lowest was 0.04. And the median was 3.75.
VTGN's Cash Ratio is ranked better than 97.18% of 1525
companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 2.85
vs VTGN: 30.39
* 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 Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Vistagen Therapeutics'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.
Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio falls into.
Vistagen Therapeutics Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
Vistagen Therapeutics's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 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.
Vistagen Therapeutics (NAS:VTGN) 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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Vistagen Therapeutics (Vistagen Therapeutics) Business Description
Vistagen Therapeutics Inc is a biotechnology firm. The company is in its clinical stage and engaged in developing and commercializing product candidates for patients with diseases and disorders involving the central nervous system. The company's pipeline includes six product candidates, including five clinical-stage investigational agents belonging to a new class of drugs known as pherines. The portfolio of the company includes PH94B, a novel neuroactive nasal spray; PH10, an odorless, fast-acting synthetic neurosteroid and AV-101, an oral antagonist of the glycine site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) which is the Company is developing for the treatment of MDD, suicidal ideation, neuropathic pain, levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) and epilepsy.
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