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Bens Creek Group (LSE:BEN) Cash Ratio : 0.06 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Bens Creek Group Cash Ratio?

The Cash Ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with cash and near-cash resources. It is calculated as a company's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.06.

Bens Creek Group has a Cash Ratio of 0.06. It indicates that there are more current liabilities than Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities, and the company does not have sufficient cash on hand to pay off its short-term debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:BEN' s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.02   Med: 0.06   Max: 0.4
Current: 0.06

During the past 3 years, Bens Creek Group's highest Cash Ratio was 0.40. The lowest was 0.02. And the median was 0.06.

LSE:BEN's Cash Ratio is ranked worse than
82.41% of 614 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 0.28 vs LSE:BEN: 0.06

Bens Creek Group Cash Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Bens Creek Group's Cash 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.

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Bens Creek Group Cash Ratio Chart

Bens Creek Group Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Cash Ratio
- 0.40 0.02

Bens Creek Group Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Cash Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.02 0.40 0.32 0.02 0.06

Competitive Comparison of Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio

For the Coking Coal subindustry, Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash 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.


Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Steel Industry

For the Steel industry and Basic Materials sector, Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio falls into.



Bens Creek Group Cash Ratio Calculation

The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.

Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as:

Cash Ratio (A: Mar. 2023 )=Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities/Total Current Liabilities
=0.389/23.187
=0.02

Bens Creek Group's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as:

Cash Ratio (Q: Sep. 2023 )=Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities/Total Current Liabilities
=0.957/15.049
=0.06

* 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.


Bens Creek Group  (LSE:BEN) Cash Ratio Explanation

The cash ratio is more conservative than other liquidity ratios, such as Quick Ratio and Current Ratio, because it only considers a company's most liquid resources. The numerator of cash ratio only considers Cash, Cash Equivalents and marketable securities. Other current assets, such as accounts receivable and inventories, are not included. The rationale is that these assets may require time to be transformed into cash, and the amount of money received is also uncertain.

The cash ratio shows a company’s ability to pay all current liabilities immediately without selling or liquidating other assets. Generally speaking, a higher cash ratio suggests the company has a stronger ability to cover its short-term debt. However, a high cash ratio could also indicate inefficient management: the company is inefficient in making full utilization of cash to invest protential profitable project. It may also suggest that the company is not confident about future profitability.

In general, the higher the cash ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.


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Bens Creek Group (LSE:BEN) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
15 Stratton Street, London, GBR, W1J 8LQ
Bens Creek Group PLC owns and operates metallurgical coal mines in North America. Its main country of operation is the United States of America. The company is engaged in Ben's creek mining project situated in the southern part of the state of West Virginia and the eastern edge of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The company has two geographical segment, the United Kingdom and the United States of America ("USA"). Activities in the UK are mainly administrative in nature whilst the activities in the USA relate to coal production and sale of coal. Geographically the company derives the majority of its revenue from USA.