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Sumitomo Current ratio

What is the Current ratio of Sumitomo?

The Current ratio of Sumitomo Corp. is 1.65

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 Sumitomo do?

Sumitomo Corporation imports, exports, and sells various goods and commodities worldwide. The company's Metal Products segment offers steel sheets and tubular products; and non-ferrous metals, such as aluminum and titanium. Its Transportation & Construction Systems segment manufactures, sells, services, leases, and finances ships, aircrafts, motor vehicles, construction equipment, and related components and parts. The company's Infrastructure segment provides power generation; power plant engineering, procurement, and construction services; retails electricity; and offers delivery, customs clearance, transportation, and insurance services. It also engages in the development and operation of industrial parks; and industrial facilities and equipment, water, transportation systems and infrastructure, airports, smart city project, environmental solutions, and storage battery businesses. Its Media & Digital segment engages in the cable television, 5G related technologies, multi-channel programming distribution, movies, digital media-related, video content-related, TV shopping, e-commerce, ICT platform, digital solution, corporate venture capital, cell phones, and smart communications platform businesses, as well as provision of value-added services. The company's Living Related & Real Estate segment operates food supermarkets and drugstore chains; offers vegetables, fruits, and meats; and trades in cement, wood, building materials, and biomass, as well as buildings, retail facilities, residences, logistics facilities, and real estate funds. Its Mineral Resources, Energy, Chemical & Electronics segment develops and trades in mineral and energy resources, commodity derivatives, liquefied petroleum gas, battery, carbon products, plastics, organic and inorganic chemicals, silicon wafers, LEDs, pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, household insecticide, fertilizers, and veterinary drugs. Sumitomo Corporation was incorporated in 1919 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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