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Imperial Brands (Imperial Brands) Current Ratio : 0.72 (As of Sep. 2023)


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What is Imperial Brands Current Ratio?

The current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay short-term obligations. It is calculated as a company's Total Current Assets divides by its Total Current Liabilities. Imperial Brands's current ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 was 0.72.

Imperial Brands has a current ratio of 0.72. It indicates that the company may have difficulty meeting its current obligations. Low values, however, do not indicate a critical problem. If Imperial Brands has good long-term prospects, it may be able to borrow against those prospects to meet current obligations.

The historical rank and industry rank for Imperial Brands's Current Ratio or its related term are showing as below:

IMBBY' s Current Ratio Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.63   Med: 0.77   Max: 0.93
Current: 0.72

During the past 13 years, Imperial Brands's highest Current Ratio was 0.93. The lowest was 0.63. And the median was 0.77.

IMBBY's Current Ratio is ranked worse than
82.69% of 52 companies
in the Tobacco Products industry
Industry Median: 1.545 vs IMBBY: 0.72

Imperial Brands Current Ratio Historical Data

The historical data trend for Imperial Brands's Current 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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Imperial Brands Current Ratio Chart

Imperial Brands Annual Data
Trend Sep14 Sep15 Sep16 Sep17 Sep18 Sep19 Sep20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep23
Current Ratio
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.89 0.78 0.76 0.80 0.72

Imperial Brands Semi-Annual Data
Mar14 Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
Current Ratio Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.76 0.71 0.80 0.74 0.72

Competitive Comparison of Imperial Brands's Current Ratio

For the Tobacco subindustry, Imperial Brands's Current Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Current 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.


Imperial Brands's Current Ratio Distribution in the Tobacco Products Industry

For the Tobacco Products industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Imperial Brands's Current Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Imperial Brands's Current Ratio falls into.



Imperial Brands Current Ratio Calculation

The current ratio is mainly used to give an idea of the company's ability to pay back its short-term liabilities with its short-term assets.

Imperial Brands's Current Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Current Ratio (A: Sep. 2023 )=Total Current Assets (A: Sep. 2023 )/Total Current Liabilities (A: Sep. 2023 )
=10637.376/14726.485
=0.72

Imperial Brands's Current Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2023 is calculated as

Current Ratio (Q: Sep. 2023 )=Total Current Assets (Q: Sep. 2023 )/Total Current Liabilities (Q: Sep. 2023 )
=10637.376/14726.485
=0.72

* 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.


Imperial Brands  (OTCPK:IMBBY) Current Ratio Explanation

The current ratio can give a sense of the efficiency of a company's operating cycle or its ability to turn its product into cash. Companies that have trouble getting paid on their receivables or have long inventory turnover can run into liquidity problems because they are unable to alleviate their obligations. Because business operations differ in each industry, it is always more useful to compare companies within the same industry.

Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry and are generally between 1 and 3 for healthy businesses.

The higher the current ratio, the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. A ratio under 1 suggests that the company would be unable to pay off its obligations if they came due at that point. While this shows the company is not in good financial health, it does not necessarily mean that it will go bankrupt - as there are many ways to access financing - but it is definitely not a good sign.

If all other things were equal, a creditor, who is expecting to be paid in the next 12 months, would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio means that the company is more likely to meet its liabilities which fall due in the next 12 months.


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Imperial Brands (Imperial Brands) Business Description

Address
121 Winterstoke Road, Bristol, GBR, BS3 2LL
Imperial Brands is the world's fourth-largest international tobacco company (excluding China National Tobacco) with total fiscal 2023 volume of 198 billion cigarettes sold in more than 160 countries. The firm holds a leading global position in the fine-cut tobacco and hand-rolling paper categories, and it has a logistics platform in Western Europe, Altadis. Through acquisition, Imperial is the third-largest manufacturer in the U.S. and owns the Winston and blu brands.

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