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. China Telecom's quick ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 0.58.
China Telecom has a quick ratio of 0.58. It indicates that the company cannot currently fully pay back its current liabilities.
The historical rank and industry rank for China Telecom's Quick Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
HKSE:00728'
s Quick Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.22 Med: 0.31 Max: 0.58
Current: 0.58
During the past 13 years, China Telecom's highest Quick Ratio was 0.58. The lowest was 0.22. And the median was 0.31.
HKSE:00728's Quick Ratio is ranked worse than 78.72% of 390
companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 0.95
vs HKSE:00728: 0.58
China Telecom Quick Ratio Historical Data
The historical data trend for China Telecom'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 China Telecom's Quick Ratio
For the Telecom Services subindustry, China Telecom'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.
China Telecom's Quick Ratio Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry
For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, China Telecom's Quick Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where China Telecom's Quick Ratio falls into.
China Telecom 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.
China Telecom's Quick 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.
China Telecom (HKSE:00728) 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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China Telecom is the largest fixed-line operator in China, originally covering 21 southern provinces. It has 102 million fixed-line subscribers, 189 million broadband customers, and 406 million wireless subscribers, having overtaken China Unicom to become the second-largest wireless operator in China behind China Mobile. The firm is increasing its cross-selling of products and seeing strong growth from industrial digitization services, such as internet data centers and cloud computing. Its internet data center business is already the largest in China, with a plan to have 560,000 cabinets by end 2023.
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