ARIAD Pharmaceuticals has a Cash Ratio of 2.84. It generally indicates that the company is able to cover all short-term debt and still have cash remaining.
The historical rank and industry rank for ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:
ARIA's Cash Ratio is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 2.9 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Cash Ratio only.
* 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.
Competitive Comparison of ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio
For the Biotechnology subindustry, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Cash Ratio data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry
For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio falls into.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Cash Ratio Calculation
The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as:
* 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.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (NAS:ARIA) Cash Ratio Explanation
The cash ratio is more conservative than other liquidity ratios, such as Quick Ratio and Current Ratio, because it only considers a company's most liquid resources. The numerator of cash ratio only considers Cash, Cash Equivalents and marketable securities. Other current assets, such as accounts receivable and inventories, are not included. The rationale is that these assets may require time to be transformed into cash, and the amount of money received is also uncertain.
The cash ratio shows a company’s ability to pay all current liabilities immediately without selling or liquidating other assets. Generally speaking, a higher cash ratio suggests the company has a stronger ability to cover its short-term debt. However, a high cash ratio could also indicate inefficient management: the company is inefficient in making full utilization of cash to invest protential profitable project. It may also suggest that the company is not confident about future profitability.
In general, the higher the cash ratio, the better the company's liquidity position.
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ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (ARIAD Pharmaceuticals) Business Description
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc was organized as a Delaware corporation in April 1991. It is an oncology company. The Company is focused on discovery and development of breakthrough medicines to treat cancers by regulating cell signaling with small molecules. The Company's first approved cancer medicine, Iclusig (ponatinib), and its product candidates, AP26113 and ridaforolimus, were discovered internally by its scientists based on the expertise in computational and structure-based drug design. AP26113 is an investigational inhibitor of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, or ALK. In non-clinical studies, AP26113 also demonstrated that it can inhibit epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR, and c-ros oncogene-1, or ROS1. . Iclusig and its drug candidates and preclinical compounds are small molecules that can be readily synthesized by processes that it has developed. The Company do not own or operate manufacturing facilities for the production of clinical or commercial quantities of Iclusig or its product candidates. The company's competitors includes pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Amgen Inc., AstraZeneca PLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Celgene Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, the Roche Group, GlaxoSmithKline plc, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Merck KGaA, Novartis AG, Pfizer, Inc., Sanofi-Aventis, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.Inc.
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