If a company builds assets at 9.6% a year, faster than its revenue growth rate of 8.7% over the past 5 years, it means that the company may be getting less efficient.
During the past 12 months, Northern Technologies International's average Total Assets Growth Rate was 1.50% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 15.70% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 9.60% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Total Assets Growth Rate was 6.60% per year.
During the past 13 years, Northern Technologies International's highest 3-Year average Total Assets Growth Rate was 34.50%. The lowest was 0.30%. And the median was 11.55%.
* 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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Northern Technologies International Total Assets Calculation
Total Assets are all the assets a company owns.
From the capital sources of the assets, some of the assets are funded through shareholder's paid in capital and retained earnings of the business. Others are funded through borrowed money.
* 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.
Northern Technologies International (NAS:NTIC) Total Assets Explanation
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The Net Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) data.
In the article Joining The Dark Side: Pirates, Spies and Short Sellers, James Montier reported that In their US sample covering the period 1968-2003, Cooper et al find that firms with low asset growth outperformed firms with high asset growth by an astounding 20% p.a. equally weighted. Even when controlling for market, size and style, low asset growth firms outperformed high asset growth firms by 13% p.a. Therefore a company with fast asset growth may underperform.
Total Assets is linked to total revenue through Asset Turnover.
Northern Technologies International's Asset Turnover for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is
* 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.
Therefore, if a company grows its Total Assets faster than its Revenue, the Asset Turnover will decline. This might be a warning sign for the business.
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Northern Technologies International (Northern Technologies International) Business Description
Northern Technologies International Corp, or NTIC is a United States-based firm that develops and markets environmentally beneficial products and services world-wide either directly or through a network of joint ventures, distributors, and agents. It operates through two segments which include ZERUST products and services and Nature-Tec products. Its main business is providing corrosion prevention solutions that are marketed under the ZERUST brand. The company also sells a portfolio of bio-based and biodegradable (compostable) polymer resin compounds and finished products marketed under the Nature-Tec brand. The ZERUST brand generates a vast majority of the revenue for the company.
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