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Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc Current ratio

What is the Current ratio of Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc?

The Current ratio of Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc is 10.09

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 Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc do?

at agios, we are doing incredibly important and difficult work. we are trying to discover and develop breakthrough medicines, and we have a clear motivator — people with cancer and rare genetic diseases who are counting on us to be successful. we are a science-driven research organization. we have built a discovery platform upon our expertise in the fields of cellular metabolism and precision medicine across three major focus areas: cancer metabolism, rare genetic metabolic disorders and metabolic immuno-oncology. it takes people with a diversity of thought, skills, passions and backgrounds to get us from the first stages of understanding new biology and discovering drugs to our ultimate goal of getting these medicines to patients who are waiting for them. our connection to one another and our work and our commitment to our values enable us to potentially change the practice of medicine by by striving for excellence and doing things differently. we call this the "other side of possible

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