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. Synutra International's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2016 was 0.78.
Synutra International has a current ratio of 0.78. It indicates that the company may have difficulty meeting its current obligations. Low values, however, do not indicate a critical problem. If Synutra International 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 Synutra International's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
SYUT's Current Ratio is not ranked *
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.
Industry Median: 1.66 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Current Ratio only.
Synutra International Current Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Synutra International'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 Synutra International's Current Ratio
For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Synutra International'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.
Synutra International's Current Ratio Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry
For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Synutra International's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Synutra International's Current Ratio falls into.
Synutra International 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.
Synutra International'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.
Synutra International (NAS:SYUT) 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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Synutra International (Synutra International) Business Description
Synutra International Inc was formed on October 30, 1998. The Company is engaged in the production, distribution & sales of dairy based nutritional products under Shengyuan or Synutra line of brands in China. Its other nutritional product includes prepared foods, nutritional ingredients & supplements. It is focused on selling powdered formula products for infants and adults, and is also engaged in other nutritional product offerings, such as prepared foods and certain nutritional supplements. It sells the products through an extensive nationwide sales and distribution network covering all provinces and provincial-level municipalities in mainland China. It has three reportable segments; nutritional food, nutritional supplement and other business. The Nutritional Food segment includes the sale of powdered infant and adult formula products, with brands including Super, My Angel and Dutch Cow, as well as the sale of prepared foods under the Huiliduo brand; Nutritional Supplement: includes the production and sale of nutritional supplements such as chondroitin sulfate to third parties, and microencapsulated Docosahexanoic Acid ("DHA") and Arachidonic Acid ("ARA") to the nutritional food segment for use in powdered formula production; and Other Business includes non-core businesses such as ancillary sales of excess or unusable ingredients and materials to industrial customers, providing genetic diagnostic services for new born babies, and sales of cosmetics to pregnant women. Its business requires certain key raw materials, such as milk powder and whey powder. The Company competes with both multinational and domestic infant formula producers.
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