CST Brands (CST Brands) Days Inventory : 8.98 (As of Mar. 2017)

CST Brands Days Inventory Chart

CST Brands Quarterly Data
	Jun12	Sep12	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17
Days Inventory	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															10.65	8.70	8.84	8.92	8.98

Competitive Comparison of CST Brands's Days Inventory

For the Specialty Retail subindustry, CST Brands's Days Inventory, along with its competitors' market caps and Days Inventory 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.

CST Brands's Days Inventory Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, CST Brands's Days Inventory distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where CST Brands's Days Inventory falls into.

CST Brands Days Inventory Calculation

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

CST Brands's Days Inventory for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2016 is calculated as

CST Brands's Days Inventory for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2017 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.

CST Brands  (NYSE:CST) 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.

CST Brands's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Mar. 2017 is calculated as

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.

CST Brands's Inventory to Revenue for the three months ended in Mar. 2017 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.

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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