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Pental Current ratio

What is the Current ratio of Pental?

The Current ratio of Pental Limited is 12.54

What is the definition of Current ratio?



Current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures whether or not a company has enough resources to meet its short-term obligations.

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The current ratio is an indication of a company's liquidity and measures the capability to meet a company's short-term obligations. It compares a firm's current assets to its current liabilities, and is expressed as current assets divided by current liabilities. The ratio is only useful when two companies are compared within industry because inter industry business operations differ substantially. To determine liquidity, the current ratio is not as helpful as the quick ratio, because it includes all those assets that may not be easily liquidated, like prepaid expenses and inventory.

Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry. In many cases an investor would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio indicates that the company is more likely to pay the investor back. Large current ratios are not always a good sign for investors. If the company's current ratio is too high it may indicate that the company is not efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. If current liabilities exceed current assets the current ratio will be less than 1. A current ratio of less than 1 indicates that the company may have problems meeting its short-term obligations.

Some types of businesses can operate with a current ratio of less than one however. If inventory turns into cash much more rapidly than the accounts payable become due, then the firm's current ratio can comfortably remain less than one. Inventory is valued at the cost of acquiring it and the firm intends to sell the inventory for more than this cost. The sale will therefore generate substantially more cash than the value of inventory on the balance sheet. Low current ratios can also be justified for businesses that can collect cash from customers long before they need to pay their suppliers.

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What does Pental do?

Pental Limited manufactures, markets, and distributes personal, household, and commercial products in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. The company provides soap, laundry, and dishwashing products, as well as stain removers, bleaches, and firelighters. It operates through Owned Brands, Contracted Brands, and Hampers with Bite segments. The Owned Brands segment engages in the manufacture, wholesale, and management of brands; and promotion of brands through advertising, social media, outdoor media, and in stores. The Contracted Brands segment provides contract services, including manufacturing and distribution services to external brand owners, as well as manufacturing services of private label products for retailers, contractually manufactured products for FMCG companies, and distribution of products for Duracell batteries. The Hampers with Bite segment, an online gifting business, which specializes in sourcing, assembling, and delivering services of gift hampers. The company offers firelighter, household, bathroom, gift pack, bleach, dishwashing, laundry, toilet, personal care, hand sanitizer, hand soap, hand wash, and toothpaste, as well as fabric care, conditioner, and solution products under the AIM, Country Life, Duracell, Huggie, Janola, Jiffy Firelighters, Little Lucifer, Lux, Martha's, Procell, Softly, Sunlight, Velvet, and White King brands. The company was formerly known as Symex Holdings Limited and changed its name to Pental Limited in January 2013. Pental Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

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