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. Barrick Gold's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 1.76.
Barrick Gold has a Cash Ratio of 1.76. It generally indicates that the company is able to cover all short-term debt and still have cash remaining.
The historical rank and industry rank for Barrick Gold's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
GOLD'
s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.94 Med: 1.36 Max: 2.53
Current: 1.76
During the past 13 years, Barrick Gold's highest Cash Ratio was 2.53. The lowest was 0.94. And the median was 1.36.
GOLD's Cash Ratio is ranked better than 55.27% of 2600
companies
in the Metals & Mining industry
Industry Median: 1.25
vs GOLD: 1.76
Barrick Gold Cash Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for Barrick Gold'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.
For the Gold subindustry, Barrick Gold'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.
Barrick Gold Cash Ratio Distribution
For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Barrick Gold's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Barrick Gold's Cash Ratio falls into.
Barrick Gold Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
Barrick Gold's Cash 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.
Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD) 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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Based in Toronto, Barrick Gold is one of the world's largest gold miners. In 2022, the firm produced nearly 4.1 million attributable ounces of gold and about 440 million pounds of copper. At end 2022, Barrick had about two decades of gold reserves along with significant copper reserves. After buying Randgold in 2019 and combining its Nevada mines in a joint venture with competitor Newmont later that year, it operates mines in 19 countries in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The company also has growing copper exposure. Its potential Reko Diq project in Pakistan, if developed, could double copper production by the end of the decade.
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