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ARDT (Ardent Health) Net-Net Working Capital : $-18.17 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Ardent Health Net-Net Working Capital?

In calculating the Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC), Benjamin Graham assumed that a company's accounts receivable is only worth 75% its value, its inventory is only worth 50% of its value, but its liabilities have to be paid in full. In addition, Graham believed that preferred stock belongs on the liability side of the balance sheet, not as part of capital and surplus. This is a conservative way of estimating the company's value.

Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $-18.17.

The industry rank for Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital or its related term are showing as below:

ARDT's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital is not ranked *
in the Healthcare Providers & Services industry.
Industry Median: 7.465
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital only.

Ardent Health Net-Net Working Capital Historical Data

The historical data trend for Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital 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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Ardent Health Net-Net Working Capital Chart

Ardent Health Annual Data
Trend Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Net-Net Working Capital
Get a 7-Day Free Trial -13.10 - -20.41 -21.20 -18.59

Ardent Health Quarterly Data
Dec16 Dec17 Sep18 Dec18 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Net-Net Working Capital Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -19.28 -20.86 -18.55 -18.59 -18.17

Competitive Comparison of Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital

For the Medical Care Facilities subindustry, Ardent Health's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital 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.


Ardent Health's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital Distribution in the Healthcare Providers & Services Industry

For the Healthcare Providers & Services industry and Healthcare sector, Ardent Health's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Ardent Health's Price-to-Net-Net-Working-Capital falls into.


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Ardent Health Net-Net Working Capital Calculation

Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC) per share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Net-Net Working Capital(A: Dec. 2024 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities+0.75 * Accounts Receivable+0.5 * Total Inventories-Total Liabilities
-Preferred Stock-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(556.785+0.75 * 743.031+0.5 * 115.093-3433.743
-0-390.981)/142.748
=-18.59

Ardent Health's Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC) per share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as

Net-Net Working Capital(Q: Mar. 2025 )
=(Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities+0.75 * Accounts Receivable+0.5 * Total Inventories-Total Liabilities
-Preferred Stock-Minority Interest)/Shares Outstanding (EOP)
=(495.044+0.75 * 776.519+0.5 * 120.357-3346.781
-0-389.324)/143.038
=-18.17

* 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.

In calculating the Net-Net Working Capital (NNWC), Benjamin Graham assumed that a company's accounts receivable is only worth 75% its value, its inventory is only worth 50% of its value, but its liabilities have to be paid in full.

In addition, Graham believed that preferred stock belongs on the liability side of the balance sheet, not as part of capital and surplus. In "Security Analysis", preferred stock is dubbed "an imperfect creditorship position" that is best placed on the balance sheet alongside funded debt.

This is a conservative way of estimating the company's value.


Ardent Health  (NYSE:ARDT) Net-Net Working Capital Explanation

One research study, covering the years 1970 through 1983 showed that portfolios picked at the beginning of each year, and held for one year, returned 29.4 percent, on average, over the 13-year period, compared to 11.5 percent for the S&P 500 Index. Other studies of Graham's strategy produced similar results.

Benjamin Graham looked for companies whose market values were less than two-thirds of their net-net value. They are collected under our Net-Net screener.


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Ardent Health Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
340 Seven Springs Way, Suite 100, Brentwood, TN, USA, 37027
Ardent Health Partners Inc is an operator of hospitals and a provider of healthcare services in the United States. It provides both general and specialty services, including internal medicine, general surgery, cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, women's services, neurology, urology, and emergency services, within inpatient and ambulatory care settings. The company has one reportable segment: healthcare services that provides healthcare services predominantly through its ownership and operation of hospitals, certain of which provide related healthcare services through physician practices, outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities. Ardent has 30 acute care hospitals, more than 200 sites of care that operate across six states: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New Jersey, Idaho, and Kansas.