The quick ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets. It is calculated as a company's Total Current Assets excludes Total Inventories divides by its Total Current Liabilities. NCI's quick ratio for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2017 was 1.49.
NCI has a quick ratio of 1.49. It generally indicates good short-term financial strength.
The historical rank and industry rank for NCI's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
NCIT's Quick Ratio is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 1.64 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Quick Ratio only.
NCI Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for NCI'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.
For the Information Technology Services subindustry, NCI'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.
NCI's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, NCI's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where NCI's Quick Ratio falls into.
NCI 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.
NCI's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 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.
NCI (NAS:NCIT) 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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NCI Inc is a Delaware corporation incorporated in July 2005. The Company provides enterprise services and solutions to Defense, Intelligence, Healthcare, and Civilian Government agencies. The Company provides services in areas including cybersecurity and information assurance; engineering and logistics support; enterprise information management and advanced analytics; cloud computing and information technology (IT) infrastructure optimization; health IT and medical support; IT service management; and modeling, simulation and training. The Company uses an integrated, tailorable engineering and operations methodology for governing how it provides cloud computing and IT infrastructure optimization services that fulfill its customer's important mission needs. It supports Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems lifecycle support efforts in diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages (DMSMS) analysis and engineering solutions in support of modernization and technology insertion. It supports rapid and relevant discovery, anticipatory intelligence, focused analysis, and persistent surveillance across multiple customer domains and operational disciplines as well as enriches the intelligence-to-operations lifecycle by applying scalable technologies and advanced algorithms to help interpret data. The Company provides a broad spectrum of health IT services experience, including cybersecurity/IA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance, data analysis/management. The Company designs, installs, and manages complex mission-critical enterprise systems for its customers, increasing the reliability, security, and efficiency of their IT operations while meeting stringent guidelines and requirements. The Company often competes against or team with divisions of Defense and IT services contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, General Dynamics Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, Raytheon, Harris, BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). It also competes against or team with mid-tier Federal contractors, such as CACI International and ManTech International that have specialized capabilities, as well as numerous non-public companies within the sector. The Company is subject to various laws and regulations that may affect its business. U.S. Federal Government contracts are subject to a number of Federal laws and regulations, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
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