Symmetry Surgical has a quick ratio of 1.79. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:RZV'
s Quick Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.55 Med: 1.43 Max: 1.9
Current: 1.79
During the past 13 years, Symmetry Surgical's highest Quick Ratio was 1.90. The lowest was 0.55. And the median was 1.43.
FRA:RZV's Quick Ratio is not ranked
in the Medical Devices & Instruments industry.
Industry Median: 2.01
vs FRA:RZV: 1.79
Symmetry Surgical Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Symmetry Surgical'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 Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio
For the Medical Devices subindustry, Symmetry Surgical'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.
Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry
For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio falls into.
Symmetry Surgical 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.
Symmetry Surgical's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 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.
Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) 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.
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Symmetry Medical, Inc., is a Delaware corporation incorporated on July 25, 1996. It is a source of medical device products. The Company provides medical device solutions, including surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, and sterilization cases and trays. The Company designs, develops and offers worldwide production and supply chain capabilities for these products to customers in the orthopedic industry and other medical device markets. It also manufactures specialized non-healthcare products, mainly in the aerospace industry. It operates in two reportable segments namely Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Solutions and Symmetry Surgical. Its main products produced in the OEM Solutions segment include: implants, including forged, cast and machined products for the global orthopedic device market; instruments used in the placement and removal of orthopedic implants and in other surgical procedures; cases, including plastic, metal and hybrid cases used to organize, secure and transport medical devices for orthopedic, endoscopy, dental and other surgical procedures; and other specialized products for the aerospace market. Symmetry Surgical is its new business segment. It arose from the integration of the Codman and Olsen Medical lines of surgical instruments with its Company's already existing hospital direct business, Specialty Surgical Instrumentation (SSI). Symmetry Surgical, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee offers reusable stainless steel and titanium surgical hand-held instruments and retractor systems, sterile disposable surgical products, and sterilization containers. These products are used in the surgical specialties of spine, general/obstetrics/gynecology, microsurgery/neurosurgery, orthopedics, and laparoscopy, cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgery in the hospital setting as well as surgery centers and in select physician offices. The Company's OEM Solutions segment has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia. The Company's subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations governing the emission, discharge, use, storage and disposal of hazardous materials and the remediation of contamination associated with the release of these materials at our facilities and at off-site disposal locations.
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