Rockwood Holdings (FRA:R6H) Days Inventory : 105.33 (As of Sep. 2014)

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What is Rockwood Holdings Days Inventory?

Days Inventory is also known as Days Sales of Inventory (DSI). Rockwood Holdings's Average Total Inventories for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €173 Mil. Rockwood Holdings's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €150 Mil. Hence, Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was 105.33.

The historical rank and industry rank for Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:R6H' s Days Inventory Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 27.56 Med: 88.78 Max: 219.61
Current: 107.59

During the past 12 years, Rockwood Holdings's highest Days Inventory was 219.61. The lowest was 27.56. And the median was 88.78.

FRA:R6H's Days Inventory is not ranked
in the Chemicals industry.
Industry Median: 82.92 vs FRA:R6H: 107.59

Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory declined from Sep. 2013 (219.02) to Sep. 2014 (105.33).

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. Rockwood Holdings's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was 0.87.

Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue. Rockwood Holdings's Inventory-to-Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was 0.63.

Rockwood Holdings Days Inventory Historical Data

The historical data trend for Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory can be seen below:

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Rockwood Holdings Days Inventory Chart

Rockwood Holdings Annual Data

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111.61

84.64

93.03

219.18

108.14

Rockwood Holdings Quarterly Data
	Dec09	Mar10	Jun10	Sep10	Dec10	Mar11	Jun11	Sep11	Dec11	Mar12	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14
Days Inventory	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															219.02	110.40	108.62	104.15	105.33

Competitive Comparison of Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory, along with its competitors' market caps and Days Inventory data, can be viewed below:

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Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory distribution charts can be found below:

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Rockwood Holdings Days Inventory Calculation

Days Inventory indicates the number of days of goods in sales that a company has in the inventory.

Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

	Days Inventory (A: Dec. 2013 )
=	Average Total Inventories					/	Cost of Goods Sold	*	Days in Period
=	( (Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2012 )	+	Total Inventories (A: Dec. 2013 ))	/	count )	/	Cost of Goods Sold (A: Dec. 2013 )	*	Days in Period
=	( (162.077	+	166.586)	/	2 )	/	554.654	*	365
=	164.3315					/	554.654	*	365
=	108.14

Rockwood Holdings's Days Inventory for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as:

	Days Inventory (Q: Sep. 2014 )
=	Average Total Inventories					/	Cost of Goods Sold	*	Days in Period
=	( (Total Inventories (Q: Jun. 2014 )	+	Total Inventories (Q: Sep. 2014 ))	/	count )	/	Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Sep. 2014 )	*	Days in Period
=	( (169.942	+	176.54)	/	2 )	/	150.079	*	365 / 4
=	173.241					/	150.079	*	365 / 4
=	105.33

Rockwood Holdings (FRA:R6H) Days Inventory Explanation

Days Inventory indicates the liquidity of the inventory. Generally, a lower Days Inventory is preferred as it indicates a shorter duration to clear off the inventory. An increase of the ratio may indicate the company's sales slowed. Similar ratios related to Days Inventory are:

1. Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year.

Rockwood Holdings's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Inventory Turnover	=	Cost of Goods Sold	/	Average Total Inventories
	=	150.079	/	173.241
	=	0.87

2. Inventory-to-Revenue determines the ability of a company to manage their inventory levels. It measures the percentage of Inventories the company currently has on hand to support the current amount of Revenue.

Rockwood Holdings's Inventory to Revenue for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 is calculated as

Inventory-to-Revenue	=	Average Total Inventories	/	Revenue
	=	173.241	/	276.489
	=	0.63

Be Aware

A lot of business are seasonable. It makes more sense to compare Days Inventory from the same period in the previous year instead of from the previous quarter.

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Rockwood Holdings Inc was incorporated in Delaware in September 2000. It is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of value-added specialty chemicals and materials used for industrial and commercial purposes. The Company operates through two business segments: Lithium and Surface Treatment. The Lithium segment operates under the Rockwood Lithium brand name and develops lithium chemicals for industries and end markets. It develops and manufactures basic lithium compounds, including lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, lithium chloride, and value-added lithium specialties and reagents, including butyllithium and lithium aluminum hydride. It operates lithium business along the following five business divisions reflecting its core end-markets: Lithium Salts; Special Salts; Butyllithium/Lithium Metal; Battery Products and Lithium Specialties. Lithium segment obtains lithium brine which it uses to produce lithium products through evaporation in the Salar de Atacama, Chile and Silver Peak, Nevada. Lithium's customers include Bayer CropScience (a division of Bayer AG), Syngenta AG, Umicore S.A., Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Royal DSM N.V. Surface Treatment segment operates under the Chemetall brand name and develops and manufactures metal surface treatment products and services for industries and end market. Surface Treatment's products are used for a variety of applications and serve the automotive, aerospace and general industrial markets, including steel and metal-working industries. The customers include ArcelorMittal, Daimler AG, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) N.V., Ford, Renault-Nissan and Volkswagen AG. The competitors in this segment includes: Dow Corning Corporation, Catalise Industria e Comercio de Metals Ltda and Nachmann S.r.I. The Company's operations are subject to regulation by the FDA with respect to certain products produced, marketed and sold by its Lithium segment, which includes pharmaceutical intermediates.

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