S & B Industrial Minerals (ATH:ARBA) Total Inventories : €101.6 Mil (As of Sep. 2012)

S & B Industrial Minerals Total Inventories Chart

S & B Industrial Minerals Annual Data
	Trend	Dec02	Dec03	Dec04	Dec05	Dec06	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11
Total Inventories		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					84.25	92.16	65.09	77.06	73.47

S & B Industrial Minerals Quarterly Data
	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12
Total Inventories	Get a 7-Day Free Trial							87.80	73.47	73.02	72.57	101.62

S & B Industrial Minerals Total Inventories Calculation

Total Inventories includes the raw materials, work-in-process goods and completely finished goods of a company. It is a portion of a company's current assets.

S & B Industrial Minerals  (ATH:ARBA) Total Inventories Explanation

Inventory control is an important part of business operation. If a company does not have enough inventory, it may not be able to meet customers' required delivery time. If it has too much inventory, the cost of holding the inventory can be high.

1. In Ben Graham's calculation of Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC), inventory is only considered worth half of its book value.

S & B Industrial Minerals's Net-Net Working Capital Per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2012 is

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

S & B Industrial Minerals's Days Inventory for the three months ended in Sep. 2012 is calculated as:

3. Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year.

S & B Industrial Minerals's Inventory Turnover for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2012 is calculated as

4. 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.

S & B Industrial Minerals's Inventory to Revenue for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2012 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.

Be Aware

Manufacturers with durable competitive advantages have the advantage that the products they sell do not change, and therefore will never become obsolete. Buffett likes this advantage.

When identifying manufacturers with durable competitive advantage, look for inventory and net earnings that rise correspondingly. This indicates that the company is finding profitable ways to increase sales which called for an increase in inventory.

Manufacturers with inventories that spike up and down are indicative of competitive industries subject to boom and bust.

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