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Flour Mills Nigeria (NSA:FMNL) Cash Ratio : 0.17 (As of Mar. 2023)


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What is Flour Mills Nigeria Cash Ratio?

The Cash Ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with cash and near-cash resources. It is calculated as a company's Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 was 0.17.

Flour Mills Nigeria has a Cash Ratio of 0.17. It indicates that there are more current liabilities than Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities, and the company does not have sufficient cash on hand to pay off its short-term debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

NSA:FMNL' s Cash Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.09   Med: 0.15   Max: 0.18
Current: 0.17

During the past 13 years, Flour Mills Nigeria's highest Cash Ratio was 0.18. The lowest was 0.09. And the median was 0.15.

NSA:FMNL's Cash Ratio is ranked worse than
69.67% of 1840 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 0.39 vs NSA:FMNL: 0.17

Flour Mills Nigeria Cash Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio can be seen below:

* 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.

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Flour Mills Nigeria Cash Ratio Chart

Flour Mills Nigeria Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Cash Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.09 0.18 0.18 0.11 0.17

Flour Mills Nigeria Semi-Annual Data
Mar11 Mar12 Mar13 Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Cash Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.09 0.18 0.18 0.11 0.17

Competitive Comparison of Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Flour Mills Nigeria'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.


Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio falls into.



Flour Mills Nigeria Cash Ratio Calculation

The Cash Ratio measures a company's ability to meet its short-term obligations with its cash and near-cash resources.

Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as:

Cash Ratio (A: Mar. 2023 )=Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities/Total Current Liabilities
=97702.029/584091.324
=0.17

Flour Mills Nigeria's Cash Ratio for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2023 is calculated as:

Cash Ratio (Q: Mar. 2023 )=Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities/Total Current Liabilities
=97702.029/584091.324
=0.17

* 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.


Flour Mills Nigeria  (NSA:FMNL) 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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Flour Mills Nigeria (NSA:FMNL) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
Wharf Road, 1, Golden Penny Place, Apapa, Lagos, NGA
Flour Mills Nigeria PLC is an investment holding company. The company's operating segment includes Food; Agro Allied; Sugar and Support Services. It generates maximum revenue from the Food segment which includes milling and sales of flour and production and sales of pasta, snacks, and noodles. Its Agro-Allied segment includes farming of maize, cassava, soya, sugar cane and oil palm and production and sales of fertilizer, edible oils and livestock feeds. The Sugar segment includes the cultivation and processing of sugarcane, refining and selling of sugar and sale of by-products from sugar refining.

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