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Molycorp (XSWX:MCP) Days Payable : 18.59 (As of Jun. 2015)


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What is Molycorp Days Payable?

Molycorp's average Accounts Payable for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was CHF28.8 Mil. Molycorp's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was CHF141.3 Mil. Hence, Molycorp's Days Payable for the three months ended in Jun. 2015 was 18.59.

The historical rank and industry rank for Molycorp's Days Payable or its related term are showing as below:

XSWX:MCP' s Days Payable Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 15.56   Med: 93.63   Max: 331.55
Current: 15.56

During the past 6 years, Molycorp's highest Days Payable was 331.55. The lowest was 15.56. And the median was 93.63.

XSWX:MCP's Days Payable is not ranked
in the Metals & Mining industry.
Industry Median: 129.525 vs XSWX:MCP: 15.56

Molycorp's Days Payable declined from Jun. 2014 (42.95) to Jun. 2015 (18.59). It may suggest that Molycorp accelerated paying its suppliers.


Molycorp Days Payable Historical Data

The historical data trend for Molycorp's Days Payable 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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Molycorp Days Payable Chart

Molycorp Annual Data
Trend Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14
Days Payable
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 85.07 179.63 145.50 98.08 37.50

Molycorp Quarterly Data
Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15
Days Payable Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 42.95 38.92 27.42 26.35 18.59

Competitive Comparison of Molycorp's Days Payable

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Molycorp's Days Payable, along with its competitors' market caps and Days Payable 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.


Molycorp's Days Payable Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Molycorp's Days Payable distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Molycorp's Days Payable falls into.



Molycorp Days Payable Calculation

Days Payable indicates the number of days that the account payable relative to cost of goods sold the company has. An increase of Days Payable may suggest that the company delays paying its suppliers.

Molycorp's Days Payable for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as

Days Payable (A: Dec. 2014 )
=Average Accounts Payable /Cost of Goods Sold*Days in Period
=( (Accounts Payable (A: Dec. 2013 ) + Accounts Payable (A: Dec. 2014 )) / count ) / Cost of Goods Sold (A: Dec. 2014 )*Days in Period
=( (75.438 + 39.833) / 2 ) / 560.991*365
=57.6355 / 560.991*365
=37.50

Molycorp's Days Payable for the quarter that ended in Jun. 2015 is calculated as:

Days Payable (Q: Jun. 2015 )
=Average Accounts Payable / Cost of Goods Sold*Days in Period
=( (Accounts Payable (Q: Mar. 2015 ) + Accounts Payable (Q: Jun. 2015 )) / count ) / Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Jun. 2015 )*Days in Period
=( (34.393 + 23.154) / 2 ) / 141.252*365 / 4
=28.7735 / 141.252*365 / 4
=18.59

* 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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Molycorp (XSWX:MCP) Business Description

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Molycorp Inc, formerly known as Rare Earth Acquisitions LLC, was formed on March 4, 2010 as a new Delaware corporation. The Company manufactures custom engineered rare earth and rare metal products. Its business is organized into four reportable segments: Resources; Chemicals and Oxides; Magnetic Materials and Alloys; and Rare Metals. The Resources segment includes its operations at the Molycorp Mountain Pass Rare Earth Facility, where it conducts rare earth minerals extraction to produce: rare earth concentrates; REO, including lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, praseodymium, and yttrium; heavy rare earth concentrates, which include samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, and others; and SorbXTM, a line of proprietary rare earth-based water treatment products. The Chemicals and Oxides segment includes: production of REO at its operations at Molycorp Silmet; separated heavy rare earth oxides and other custom engineered materials from its facilities in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China; and production of REO, salts of rare earth elements, or REEs, zirconium-based engineered materials and mixed rare earth/zirconium oxides from its facilities in Zibo, Shandong Province, China. The Magnetic Materials and Alloys segment includes: the production of Neo Powders through its wholly-owned manufacturing facilities in Tianjin, China, and Korat, Thailand, under the Molycorp Magnequench brand. This operating segment also includes manufacturing of neodymium and samarium magnet alloys, other specialty alloy products and rare earth metals at its MMA facility, located in Tolleson, Arizona. The Rare Metals segment produces, reclaims, refines and markets high value niche metals and their compounds that include gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum, and niobium. Applications from products made in this segment include wireless technologies, LED, flat panel display, turbine, solar, catalyst, steel additive, electronics applications, and others. The Company's operations are subject to numerous and detailed international, national, federal, state and local laws, regulations and permits affecting the mining and mineral processing industry, including those pertaining to employee health and safety, environmental permitting and licensing, air quality standards, greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions, water usage and disposal, pollution, waste management, plant and wildlife protection, handling and disposal of radioactive substances, remediation of soil and groundwater contamination, land use, reclamation and restoration of properties, the discharge of materials into the environment and groundwater quality and availability.

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