Plum Creek Timber Co has a quick ratio of 0.26. It indicates that the company cannot currently fully pay back its current liabilities.
The historical rank and industry rank for Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
PCL's Quick Ratio is not ranked *
in the Forest Products industry.
Industry Median: 1.015 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Quick Ratio only.
Plum Creek Timber Co Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Plum Creek Timber Co'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 Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio
For the Lumber & Wood Production subindustry, Plum Creek Timber Co'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.
Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Forest Products Industry
For the Forest Products industry and Basic Materials sector, Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio falls into.
Plum Creek Timber Co 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.
Plum Creek Timber Co's Quick Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 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.
Plum Creek Timber Co (NYSE:PCL) 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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Plum Creek Timber Co (Plum Creek Timber Co) Business Description
Plum Creek Timber Co Inc was incorporated in Delaware. It is a real estate investment trust. The Company owned approximately 6.6 million acres of timberlands located in 19 states. It manages its timberlands in two business segments: the Northern Resources Segment, consisting of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin; and the Southern Resources Segment, consisting of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. In addition, its Energy and Natural Resources Segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication and transportation rights of way. The Company's real estate segment includes development of certain properties, internally and through joint venture arrangements. The Company's manufacturing segment, also conducted through its wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries, includes two lumber mills, two plywood mills and two medium density fiberboard ("MDF") production lines in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. Some of its real estate activities, including its real estate development business, are conducted through its wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2014, the Northern Resources Segment encompassed approximately 3.1 million acres of timberlands and the Southern Resources Segment consisted of approximately 3.6 million acres of timberlands. In its Real Estate Segment, the Company competes with numerous sellers of entitled and unentitled land in hundreds of local markets. The Company's operations are subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations, including laws relating to water, air, solid waste and hazardous substances and the requirements of the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act and comparable state statutes relating to the health and safety of its employees.
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