Akebia Therapeutics has a quick ratio of 1.03. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for Akebia Therapeutics's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
AKBA'
s Quick Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.9 Med: 1.5 Max: 16.05
Current: 1.03
During the past 12 years, Akebia Therapeutics's highest Quick Ratio was 16.05. The lowest was 0.90. And the median was 1.50.
AKBA's Quick Ratio is ranked worse than 80.04% of 1553
companies
in the Biotechnology industry
Industry Median: 3.53
vs AKBA: 1.03
Akebia Therapeutics Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Akebia Therapeutics'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 Akebia Therapeutics's Quick Ratio
For the Biotechnology subindustry, Akebia Therapeutics'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.
Akebia Therapeutics's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Akebia Therapeutics's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Akebia Therapeutics's Quick Ratio falls into.
Akebia Therapeutics 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.
Akebia Therapeutics'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.
Akebia Therapeutics (NAS:AKBA) 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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Akebia Therapeutics (Akebia Therapeutics) Business Description
Akebia Therapeutics Inc is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company. The Company's operating segment is the business of developing and commercializing novel therapeutics for people with kidney disease. The current portfolio of the company includes 1) Auryxia (ferric citrate), a medicine approved and marketed in the United States for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia, in adult patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease. 2) Vafseo (vadadustat), an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase, inhibitor, is approved in Japan for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, in adult patients. 3) HIF-PH inhibitors in preclinical development.
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