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Puration (Puration) Current Ratio : 0.98 (As of Sep. 2007)


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What is Puration Current Ratio?

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. Puration's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 was 0.98.

Puration has a current ratio of 0.98. It indicates that the company may have difficulty meeting its current obligations. Low values, however, do not indicate a critical problem. If Puration has good long-term prospects, it may be able to borrow against those prospects to meet current obligations.

The historical rank and industry rank for Puration's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

PURA's Current Ratio is not ranked *
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 1.98
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Current Ratio only.

Puration Current Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Puration'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.

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Puration Current Ratio Chart

Puration Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06
Current Ratio
6.00 - 0.76

Puration Quarterly Data
Sep03 Jun04 Sep04 Dec04 Mar05 Jun05 Sep05 Dec05 Mar06 Jun06 Sep06 Dec06 Mar07 Jun07 Sep07
Current Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.49 0.76 0.59 0.37 0.98

Competitive Comparison of Puration's Current Ratio

For the Pollution & Treatment Controls subindustry, Puration'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.


Puration's Current Ratio Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Puration's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Puration's Current Ratio falls into.



Puration 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.

Puration's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2006 is calculated as

Current Ratio (A: Dec. 2006 )=Total Current Assets (A: Dec. 2006 )/Total Current Liabilities (A: Dec. 2006 )
=1.139/1.506
=0.76

Puration's Current Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2007 is calculated as

Current Ratio (Q: Sep. 2007 )=Total Current Assets (Q: Sep. 2007 )/Total Current Liabilities (Q: Sep. 2007 )
=0.649/0.66
=0.98

* 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.


Puration  (OTCPK:PURA) 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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Puration (Puration) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
1584 County Road 613, Farmersville, TX, USA, 75442
Puration Inc is engaged in the business of researching, designing, developing, producing, marketing and distributing products and systems to improve the quality of the water used daily by people around the world. The company designs and produces personal use water filter bottles and other containers and also has developed its proprietary technology for water filtration and purification. It derives its revenue from the selling of water filtration products.
Executives
Robert Howard Nelson officer: Chief Financial Officer 1613 EAST 15TH STREET, TULSA OK 74120