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. Applied Micro Circuits's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2016 was 3.98.
Applied Micro Circuits has a current ratio of 3.98. It indicates the company may not be efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. This may also indicate problems in working capital management.
The historical rank and industry rank for Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
AMCC's Current Ratio is not ranked *
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 2.425 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Current Ratio only.
Applied Micro Circuits 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 Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio
For the Semiconductors subindustry, Applied Micro Circuits'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.
Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry
For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio falls into.
Applied Micro Circuits 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.
Applied Micro Circuits's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2016 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.
Applied Micro Circuits (NAS:AMCC) 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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Applied Micro Circuits (Applied Micro Circuits) Business Description
Applied Micro Circuits Corp was incorporated and commenced operations in California in 1979 and was reincorporated in Delaware in 1987. The Company is engaged in providing silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene. The X-Gene family of products targets existing and emerging hyperscale cloud, scientific and high-performance computing and enterprise applications. It also offers embedded computing products based on Power Architecture, sometimes referred to as PowerPC products. The Company's HeliX family of embedded products is based on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture. The Company's embedded processor products are deployed in applications such as control- and data-plane management, wireless access points, residential gateways, wireless base stations, storage controllers, network attached storage, network switches and routing products, and multi-function printers. The Company's connectivity portion provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include devices for Optical Transport Network (OTN) equipment and physical layer (PHY) devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high speed serial format. Its embedded computing products are deployed in applications in markets such as control- and data-plane functionality, wireless access points, residential gateways, wireless base-stations, storage controllers, network attached storage, network switches and routing products, and multi-function printers. The Company holds approximately 348 issued patents which cover aspects of the design and architecture of its integrated circuit ("IC") and enterprise storage products. The Company's registered trademarks include AppliedMicro, AMCC, APM, X-Gene, Server on a Chip, Cloud Server, OTNsec, Arming the Cloud and Hard Silicon, among others. It is subject to a variety of federal, state and local governmental regulations related to the use, storage, discharge and disposal of toxic, volatile or otherwise hazardous chemicals that were used in its manufacturing process.
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