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Bens Creek Group (LSE:BEN) Quick Ratio : 0.16 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Bens Creek Group Quick Ratio?

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. Bens Creek Group's quick ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.16.

Bens Creek Group has a quick ratio of 0.16. It indicates that the company cannot currently fully pay back its current liabilities.

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

LSE:BEN' s Quick Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.16   Med: 0.34   Max: 0.68
Current: 0.16

During the past 3 years, Bens Creek Group's highest Quick Ratio was 0.68. The lowest was 0.16. And the median was 0.34.

LSE:BEN's Quick Ratio is ranked worse than
96.99% of 631 companies
in the Steel industry
Industry Median: 1.03 vs LSE:BEN: 0.16

Bens Creek Group Quick Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Bens Creek Group'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.

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Bens Creek Group Quick Ratio Chart

Bens Creek Group Annual Data
Trend Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Quick Ratio
0.68 0.44 0.17

Bens Creek Group Semi-Annual Data
Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Quick Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial 0.30 0.44 0.37 0.17 0.16

Competitive Comparison of Bens Creek Group's Quick Ratio

For the Coking Coal subindustry, Bens Creek Group'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.


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

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

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



Bens Creek Group 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.

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

Quick Ratio (A: Mar. 2023 )=(Total Current Assets-Total Inventories)/Total Current Liabilities
=(8.282-4.244)/23.187
=0.17

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

Quick Ratio (Q: Sep. 2023 )=(Total Current Assets-Total Inventories)/Total Current Liabilities
=(5.992-3.537)/15.049
=0.16

* 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) 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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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.