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Pall (FRA:PA5) Days Inventory : 103.29 (As of Apr. 2015)


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What is Pall Days Inventory?

Days Inventory is also known as Days Sales of Inventory (DSI). Pall's Average Total Inventories for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 was €341 Mil. Pall's Cost of Goods Sold for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 was €301 Mil. Hence, Pall's Days Inventory for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 was 103.29.

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

FRA:PA5' s Days Inventory Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 105.23   Med: 125.55   Max: 134.86
Current: 105.29

During the past 13 years, Pall's highest Days Inventory was 134.86. The lowest was 105.23. And the median was 125.55.

FRA:PA5's Days Inventory is not ranked
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 120.1 vs FRA:PA5: 105.29

Pall's Days Inventory declined from Apr. 2014 (113.11) to Apr. 2015 (103.29).

Inventory Turnover measures how fast the company turns over its inventory within a year. Pall's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 was 0.88.

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. Pall's Inventory-to-Revenue for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 was 0.54.


Pall Days Inventory Historical Data

The historical data trend for Pall's Days Inventory 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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Pall Days Inventory Chart

Pall Annual Data
Trend Jul05 Jul06 Jul07 Jul08 Jul09 Jul10 Jul11 Jul12 Jul13 Jul14
Days Inventory
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 120.68 121.00 105.67 110.08 106.96

Pall Quarterly Data
Jul10 Oct10 Jan11 Apr11 Jul11 Oct11 Jan12 Apr12 Jul12 Oct12 Jan13 Apr13 Jul13 Oct13 Jan14 Apr14 Jul14 Oct14 Jan15 Apr15
Days Inventory 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 113.11 96.04 106.31 102.16 103.29

Competitive Comparison of Pall's Days Inventory

For the Specialty Industrial Machinery subindustry, Pall'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.


Pall's Days Inventory Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Pall's Days Inventory distribution charts can be found below:

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



Pall Days Inventory Calculation

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

Pall's Days Inventory for the fiscal year that ended in Jul. 2014 is calculated as

Days Inventory (A: Jul. 2014 )
=Average Total Inventories / Cost of Goods Sold*Days in Period
=( (Total Inventories (A: Jul. 2013 ) + Total Inventories (A: Jul. 2014 )) / count ) / Cost of Goods Sold (A: Jul. 2014 )*Days in Period
=( (291.12 + 299.205) / 2 ) / 1007.246*365
=295.1625 / 1007.246*365
=106.96

Pall's Days Inventory for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2015 is calculated as:

Days Inventory (Q: Apr. 2015 )
=Average Total Inventories / Cost of Goods Sold*Days in Period
=( (Total Inventories (Q: Jan. 2015 ) + Total Inventories (Q: Apr. 2015 )) / count ) / Cost of Goods Sold (Q: Apr. 2015 )*Days in Period
=( (324.778 + 356.658) / 2 ) / 300.99*365 / 4
=340.718 / 300.99*365 / 4
=103.29

* 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.


Pall  (FRA:PA5) 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.

Pall's Inventory Turnover for the three months ended in Apr. 2015 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.

Pall's Inventory to Revenue for the three months ended in Apr. 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.


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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Pall (FRA:PA5) Business Description

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Pall Corporation is a New York corporation incorporated on July 31, 1946. The Company supplies filtration, separation and purification technologies. Its products are used to remove solid, liquid and gaseous contaminants from a variety of liquids and gases. Its serves its customers through two businesses: Life Sciences and Industrial. The Life Sciences business group is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling products to customers in the BioPharmaceutical, Food & Beverage and Medical markets. The Industrial business group is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling products to customers in the Process Technologies, Aerospace and Microelectronics markets. The Life Sciences technologies facilitate the process of drug discovery, development, regulatory validation and production, and are used in research laboratories, and the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. It also supplies products and technologies for food and beverage industries and in hospitals at the point of patient care. The Industrial segment provides enabling and process-enhancing technologies throughout the industrial marketplace. These include the Process Technologies, Aerospace and Microelectronics markets. It has the capability to provide customers with integrated solutions using its proprietary consumable filtration products for their process fluids. The Company's competition varies by product and application. Its competitors in the BioPharmaceuticals market include Merck Millipore (a division of Merck KGaA), The Sartorius Group and GE Healthcare (a unit of General Electric Company ("GE")). Its competitors in the Food & Beverage market include 3M Purification, Pentair, Inc., Filtrox Group, The Sartorius Group, Eaton Corporation and Parker Domnick Hunter (a division of Parker Hannifin). Its competitors in the Medical market include Merck Millipore, GE Healthcare, Teleflex Incorporated, Covidien plc and Intersurgical, Ltd. Its competitors in the Process Technologies market include CLARCOR Inc., Donaldson Company, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corporation, HYDAC International GmbH, GE Infrastructure (a unit of GE), Pentair, Inc., 3M Purification, U.S. Filter (a unit of Siemens AG) and ESCO Technologies Inc. Its competitors in the Aerospace market include Donaldson Company, Inc. and ESCO Technologies Inc. Its competitors in the Microelectronics market include Entegris, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corporation and Mott Corporation. The Company is subject to competition in all of the global markets in which it operates.

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