The Cash Ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with cash and near-cash resources. It is calculated as a company's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Snowflake's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 1.41.
Snowflake has a Cash Ratio of 1.41. 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 Snowflake's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SNOW'
s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.04 Med: 2.39 Max: 4.95
Current: 1.41
During the past 6 years, Snowflake's highest Cash Ratio was 4.95. The lowest was 1.04. And the median was 2.39.
SNOW's Cash Ratio is ranked better than 67.63% of 2768
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 0.78
vs SNOW: 1.41
Snowflake Cash Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Snowflake's Cash Ratio 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.
For the Software - Application subindustry, Snowflake'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.
Snowflake's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Snowflake's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Snowflake's Cash Ratio falls into.
Snowflake Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
Snowflake's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jan. 2024 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.
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) 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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Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a data lake, warehousing, and sharing company that came public in 2020. To date, the company has over 3,000 customers, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 as its customers. Snowflake's data lake stores unstructured and semistructured data that can then be used in analytics to create insights stored in its data warehouse. Snowflake's data sharing capability allows enterprises to easily buy and ingest data almost instantaneously compared with a traditionally months-long process. Overall, the company is known for the fact that all of its data solutions that can be hosted on various public clouds.
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