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. Riverbed Technology's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2014 was 1.85.
Riverbed Technology has a current ratio of 1.85. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:UHH's Current Ratio is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 2.02 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Current Ratio only.
Riverbed Technology Current Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Riverbed Technology's Current 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.
Competitive Comparison of Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio
For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Riverbed Technology'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.
Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio Distribution in the Hardware Industry
For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio falls into.
Riverbed Technology 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.
Riverbed Technology's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 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.
Riverbed Technology (FRA:UHH) 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.
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Riverbed Technology (FRA:UHH) Business Description
Riverbed Technology Inc was incorporated in Delaware on May 23, 2002. The Company provides application performance infrastructure. It offers a platform to give enterprises visibility to deliver, control, and optimize IT resources across the hybrid enterprise. The Company's Application Performance Platform is a set of solutions that help ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues are diagnosed and cured before end users even notice. The platform delivers application performance infrastructure solutions with a focus on two key areas: Application Acceleration and Performance Management. Wide area network (WAN) optimization for application acceleration includes Riverbed SteelHead - WAN optimization solution, and Riverbed SteelFusion (formerly Granite) - branch converged infrastructure; and Riverbed SteelApp- application delivery controller (ADC). Riverbed SteelCentral - a performance management suite that combines its application-aware network performance management and application performance management control suite. The SteelCentral product line combines its former Cascade products and the products acquired from OPNET Technologies, Inc (OPNET). These solutions can be flexibly delivered as appliances, software, and services. The Company's customers include manufacturing, finance, technology, government, architecture, engineering and construction, professional services, utilities, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, media and retail industries. The Company sells its products and support through channel partners and its field sales force. It outsources manufacturing of all hardware products. Its primary competitors include Cisco Systems, Blue Coat Systems, Citrix Systems, and F5 Networks, Netscout Systems, Computer Associates (NetQos) and Compuware. It also faces competition from a large number of smaller private companies and new market entrants. Its registered trademarks in the U.S. include, but are not limited to, Riverbed, SteelHead, RiOS, Cascade OPNET, SteelFusion, SteelCentral, AppResponse, AppInternals and Wireshark.Its patent portfolio includes 195 issued U.S. patents and 46 issued foreign patents. The Company's products and services are subject to a variety of government regulations, including export controls, import controls, environmental laws, laws relating to the use of conflict minerals, and required certifications.
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