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STEC, (FRA:XTC) Inventory Turnover : 0.40 (As of Jun. 2013)


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What is STEC, Inventory Turnover?

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. It is calculated as Cost of Goods Sold divided by Total Inventories. STEC,'s Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Jun. 2013 was €12.80 Mil. STEC,'s Average Total Inventories for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 was €31.97 Mil. STEC,'s Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 was 0.40.

Days Inventory indicates the number of days of goods in sales that a company has in the inventory. STEC,'s Days Inventory for the three months ended in Jun. 2013 was 227.87.

Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue. STEC,'s Inventory-to-Revenue for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 was 1.80.


STEC, Inventory Turnover Historical Data

The historical data trend for STEC,'s Inventory Turnover 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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STEC, Inventory Turnover Chart

STEC, Annual Data
Trend Dec03 Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12
Inventory Turnover
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 3.35 3.31 2.48 2.36 2.16

STEC, Quarterly Data
Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13
Inventory Turnover 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 Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.74 0.66 0.55 0.39 0.40

STEC, Inventory Turnover Calculation

STEC,'s Inventory Turnover for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2012 is calculated as

Inventory Turnover (A: Dec. 2012 )
=Cost of Goods Sold / Average Total Inventories
=Cost of Goods Sold (A: Dec. 2012 ) / ((Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2011 ) + Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2012 )) / count )
=82.654 / ((44.558 + 31.821) / 2 )
=82.654 / 38.1895
=2.16

STEC,'s Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 is calculated as

Inventory Turnover (Q: Jun. 2013 )
=Cost of Goods Sold / Average Total Inventories
=Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Jun. 2013 ) / ((Total Inventories (Q: Mar. 2013 ) + Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2013 )) / count )
=12.803 / ((32.493 + 31.451) / 2 )
=12.803 / 31.972
=0.40

* 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.


STEC,  (FRA:XTC) Inventory Turnover Explanation

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. A higher Inventory Turnover means the company has light inventory. Therefore the company spends less money on storage, write downs, and obsolete inventory. If the inventory is too light, it may affect sales because the company may not have enough to meet demand.

1. Days Inventory indicates the number of days of goods in sales that a company has in the inventory.

STEC,'s Days Inventory for the three months ended in Jun. 2013 is calculated as:

Days Inventory =Average Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2013 )/Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Jun. 2013 )*Days in Period
=31.972/12.803*365 / 4
=227.87

2. Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue.

STEC,'s Inventory to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2013 is calculated as

Inventory-to-Revenue=Average Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2013 ) / Revenue (Q: Jun. 2013 )
=31.972 / 17.778
=1.80

* 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.


Be Aware

Usually retailers pile up their inventories at holiday seasons to meet the stronger demand. Therefore, the inventory of a particular quarter of a year should not be used to calculate Inventory Turnover. An average inventory is a better indication.


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STEC, (FRA:XTC) Business Description

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STEC, Inc., was incorporated in 1990 in the state of California. It provides enterprise-class Flash solid-state drives that are designed to increase the performance of enterprise-storage systems and servers that companies use to retain and access their critical data. Its products are designed for storage systems and servers that run applications requiring a high level of input/output operations per second ('IOPS') performance, capacity, reliability and low latency. The Company designs and develops its SSD controllers, enhance them with proprietary firmware and combine them with third-party Flash memory to form high-performance SSDs which provide a level of IOPS performance not currently possible with traditional hard disk drives ('HDDs'). The Company sells its SSDs to global storage and server original equipment manufacturers ('OEMs') which integrate them into storage systems and servers used by enterprises in a variety of industries including financial services, government, transportation, defense and aerospace, and transaction processing. It also manufactures small form factor Flash SSDs, cards and modules, as well as custom high density dynamic random access memory ('DRAM') modules for networking, communications and industrial applications. The Company markets its products to OEMs, leveraging its comprehensive design capabilities to offer custom storage solutions to address their specific needs. A major area of its Flash-based product investment has been applied to SSD technology. It also offers both monolithic DRAM modules and DRAM modules based on its proprietary stacking technology. The Company also offers both monolithic DRAM modules and DRAM modules based on its proprietary stacking technology. The Company's ZeusIOPS SSDs are high performance enterprise-class data storage solutions. Its MACH-class SSDs are small form factor, high throughput storage solutions for mission-critical systems in a variety of industries. The Company's Industrial Grade Advanced Technology Attachment ('ATA') PC Cards are viable alternatives to HDDs due to their high reliability and low cost per useable megabyte. CompactFlash products provide full PC Card ATA functionality but are only one-fourth the size of a standard PC Card. Its flash module products include USB and Serial ATA interfaces and are targeted toward embedded systems where device footprint and low power are critical design parameters. The Company's Secure Digital ('SD') Flash Memory Cards are small, removable and non-volatile flash memory with a high performance interface. Its USB flash drive built upon an industrial-grade flash controller technology has capacity of 1GB to 8GB, its USB Flash Drive couples convenience and portability with performance and reliability. The Company offers DRAM products, including dual in-line memory modules ('DIMMs'), small-outline DIMMs, mini-registered DIMMs, very low profile registered DIMMs ('VLP RDIMMs') and Fully-Buffered DIMMs ('FB-DIMMs'). Its pat

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