The current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations. It is calculated as a company's Total Current Assets divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Automatic Data Processing's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 1.00.
Automatic Data Processing has a current ratio of 1.00. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
ADP'
s Current Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.97 Med: 1.05 Max: 1.13
Current: 1
During the past 13 years, Automatic Data Processing's highest Current Ratio was 1.13. The lowest was 0.97. And the median was 1.05.
ADP's Current Ratio is ranked worse than 79.06% of 2817
companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 1.78
vs ADP: 1.00
Automatic Data Processing Current 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 Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio
For the Software - Application subindustry, Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Current 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.
Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio falls into.
Automatic Data Processing Current Ratio Calculation
The current ratio is mainly used to give an idea of the company's ability to pay back its short-term liabilities with its short-term assets.
Automatic Data Processing's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 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.
Automatic Data Processing (NAS:ADP) Current Ratio Explanation
The current ratio can give a sense of the efficiency of a company's operating cycle or its ability to turn its product into cash. Companies that have trouble getting paid on their receivables or have long inventory turnover can run into liquidity problems because they are unable to alleviate their obligations. Because business operations differ in each industry, it is always more useful to compare companies within the same industry.
Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry and are generally between 1 and 3 for healthy businesses.
The higher the current ratio, the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. A ratio under 1 suggests that the company would be unable to pay off its obligations if they came due at that point. While this shows the company is not in good financial health, it does not necessarily mean that it will go bankrupt - as there are many ways to access financing - but it is definitely not a good sign.
If all other things were equal, a creditor, who is expecting to be paid in the next 12 months, would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio means that the company is more likely to meet its liabilities which fall due in the next 12 months.
Automatic Data Processing Current Ratio Related Terms
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Automatic Data Processing is a global technology company providing cloud-based human capital management solutions enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. Additionally, ADP provides human resource outsourcing solutions that allow customers to offload some of their traditional HR tasks. The company operates through two segments: employer services and the professional employer organization services. Employer services consists of the company's HCM products as well as a la carte HRO solutions. PEO services contains ADP's comprehensive HRO solution where it acts as a co-employer with its customer. As of fiscal 2024, ADP serves over 1.1 million clients and pays over 42 million workers across 140 countries.
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