Empire Petroleum has a quick ratio of 0.38. It indicates that the company cannot currently fully pay back its current liabilities.
The historical rank and industry rank for Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
EP'
s Quick Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.01 Med: 0.62 Max: 36
Current: 0.38
During the past 13 years, Empire Petroleum's highest Quick Ratio was 36.00. The lowest was 0.01. And the median was 0.62.
EP's Quick Ratio is ranked worse than 89.4% of 1047
companies
in the Oil & Gas industry
Industry Median: 1.14
vs EP: 0.38
Empire Petroleum Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Empire Petroleum's Quick 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 Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio
For the Oil & Gas E&P subindustry, Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Quick 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.
Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio falls into.
Empire Petroleum Quick Ratio Calculation
The quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets. For this reason, the ratio excludes inventories from current assets.
Empire Petroleum's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 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.
Empire Petroleum (AMEX:EP) Quick Ratio Explanation
The quick ratio is more conservative than the Current Ratio because it excludes inventories from current assets. The ratio derives its name presumably from the fact that assets such as cash and marketable securities are quick sources of cash. Inventories generally take time to be converted into cash, and if they have to be sold quickly, the company may have to accept a lower price than book value of these inventories. As a result, they are justifiably excluded from assets that are ready sources of immediate cash.
In general, low or decreasing quick ratios generally suggest that a company is over-leveraged, struggling to maintain or grow sales, paying bills too quickly or collecting receivables too slowly. On the other hand, a high or increasing quick ratio generally indicates that a company is experiencing solid top-line growth, quickly converting receivables into cash, and easily able to cover its financial obligations. Such companies often have faster inventory turnover and cash conversion cycles.
The higher the quick ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.
Empire Petroleum Quick Ratio Related Terms
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Empire Petroleum Corp is a conventional oil and natural gas producer with a main focus in the US onshore. The company possesses long-life, mature, producing assets with slow decline profiles in the Permian Basin, Bakken region and central Gulf Coast region, in the states of New Mexico, North Dakota, Montana, Louisiana and Texas. It has production from operated and non-operated wells in Lea County in New Mexico, Bottineau, Renville, Burke, and McKenzie Counties in North Dakota, Richland County in Montana, St. Landry, Beauregard Parishes in Louisiana and Houston, Leon and Madison Counties in Texas.
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