Financial Ratios Flashcards
How Financial Ratios can be classified?
1) Profitability ratios
2) Liquidity Ratios
3) Management Efficiency Ratios
4) Leverage ratios
5) Valuation Ratios
What Is Profitability Ratios?
It is used to evaluate the company’s ability to generate income as compared to its expenses and others cost associated with generation of income during a particular period
What does profitability ratio convey?
It conveys how well the company is able to perform in terms of generating profits
What are the commonly used Profitability Ratios?
1) Gross Profit Margin
2) EBITDA Margin(Operating margin)
3) PAT margin
4) Return on equity(ROE)
5) Return on capital Employed (ROCE)
6) Return on Asset(ROA)
What is Gross profit margin?
Gross Profit margin= Gross profit/(net sales)
What is Gross Profit?
Gross Profit= Net sales - Costs of goods Sold
What does the financial ratio “Gross profit margin” tells about?
1) Tells about the company’s profitability (in percentage terms) at the gross levels
2) Tells about the efficiency of the company in using its raw materials , labour and manufacturing related fixed assets to generate profit
How to calculate cost of goods sold?
Cost of Goods Sold= Cost of materials consumed +Purchase of stock in trade+cost of labour+cost of fuel and power+ cost of spares used+Any other significant cost
What is Net sales?
Net sales is net revenues
How Gross Profit Margin should be Analysed?
1) Gross Profit margin of the company in particular year should be compared with same in previous years ( see whether it’s declining or increasing(
2) Compare the Gross profit margin of the company with other competitors operating in same sector
What is EBITDA margin?
it is measurement of company’s earnings,before interests, taxes, depreciation and amortisation as a percentage of its net sales
EBITDA margin= EBITDA / Net sales
What Financial Ratio “EBITDA margin” tell us?
1) It tells us about the company’s profitability (in percentage terms) at the operating level. Hence known as operating margin
2) It tells about the efficiency of the management and operational efficiency of the company
How EBITDA Margin can be useful?
It is useful for comparing different companies from the same sector having different capital, Investment , Debt and Tax profiles
What is Profit after tax margin(PAT margin)?
PAT margin= PAT/Net sales
It is calculated after taking into account all other expenses including interest cost, depreciation and tax expenses .
How do you compare EBITDA margin along with PAT margin?
In case of many companies you will see that EBITDA margin is good enough ranging around 15-25% but their PAT margin is very low around 5-6% only. This may be because of high interest cost burden or huge depreciation expense due to working in an asset intensive business
What is Return on equity?
It measures how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested.
Return on equity(ROE) = [Net profit/Average shareholders Equity]*100
What it means of ROE is higher?
Higher the ROE, the better it is for share holders. It tells the shareholders how effectively their money is being used.
However, you shouldn’t trust high ROE blindly. One of the biggest weakness of ROE is that it completely ignores debt. Hence for companies having high debt, ROE will give you a higher value
What is the average ROE of top Indian companies?
It is around 14-18% . A long term investor should prefer investing in company which has higher ROE . Author prefers companies having ROE over 18
What is the Return on Capital employed(ROCE)?
It measures how much profit a company generates with its total capital employed . Here the total capital includes both the equity and debt.(both long term and short term). Hence ROCE overcomes a major weakness of ROE ( it takes debt into consideration)
ROCE= [[Profit before INTEREST and Taxes /Total Capital Employed] *100
How total capital employed is calculated?
Total capital employed =shareholders equity+ Short Term Debt+ Long term Debt
How average share holders equity is calculated?
Average shareholder Equity= [ Beginning + Ending shareholders Equity] / 2
What is shareholders Equity?
Shareholders Equity= share capital + Reserves & surplus
What is Return on Asset(ROA)?
ROA measures how much profit a company generates using its total assets.
Return on Assets= [Net income+ interest rate *( 1- Tax rate ) ] / Total Average Assets
ROA reflects capital intensity of a company. The number will be different for different industries.
How much ROA to be considered Decent value?
5% considered as decent value
With what you have to compare a ROA of company with?
ROA of other companies in same industry
What are Liquidity ratios?
Liquidity measures how quickly assets are converted into cash . These ratios are used to evaluate the company’s ability to meet short term obligations without raising external capital
What does Liquidity ratio affects and indicates?
1) It affects the credibility and Credit rating of the company
2) It indicates financial stability of the company.
What are commonly used Liquidity Ratios?
1) Current ratio
2) Quick Ratio
3) Cash ratio
What is Current Ratios?
Current ratio= Current Assets / Current Liabilities
This shows the Liquidity position eg: how equipped is the company in meeting its short term obligations with short term assets
What does higher current ratio means?
Higher current ratio signals that the company’s day to day operations will not get affected by working capital issues.
higher current ratio generally means that a company has more current assets relative to its current liabilities, which indicates that it is better able to meet its short-term obligations or debts due within one year
How much lower current ratio should be concern?
Current ratio less than 1%
How current assets is calculated?
Current Assets = Cash & Equivalent + short term investments + Accounts Receivables + Inventories
In what case , investors may calculate the quick ratio?
When companies find it difficult to convert inventory into sales or receivables into cash . ( this may hit its ability to meet obligations)
What is quick ratio?
IIT measures company’s ability to meet its short term obligations with its most liquid assets
It is more conservative than the current ratio because it excludes inventory and other current assets , which can be more difficult to turn into cash
In what situations quick ratio is better indicator of liquidity than current ratio?
In situations where inventories are illiquid.
What is cash ratio?
cash ratio = (cash + cash equivalents)/ current liabilities
The cash ratio is a financial ratio that measures a company’s ability to pay off its current liabilities using only its cash and cash equivalents
It is even more conservative than the quick ratio
Is cash ratio is often used?
No cash ratio is rarely used as it is not advisable for any company to maintain high level of cash or cash equivalents to cover the current liabilities
How holding large amount of cash or cash equivalents on the balance sheet is considered?
Cash and Cash equivalents generate the lowest possible return hence holding a large amount of it on balance sheet is considered to be poor utilisation of assets .
How companies use excessive cash and cash equivalents?
Companies use it to either make acquisitions, pay off high interest bearing debt, buy back shares or pay additional dividend to shareholders.
What is management Efficiency Ratios?
It helps us to evaluate the ability of the management to use its assets and manage its liabilities effectively
What are the commonly used Management Efficiency Ratio?
1) Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio
2) Working Capital Turnover Ratio
3) Total Asset Turnover Ratio
4) Inventory Turnover Ratio
5) Inventory Number of days
6) Receivables Turnover Ratio
7) Day of sales outstanding
What is Fixed Asset Turnover ratio?
Fixed Asset turnover ratio= Net sales/ Average Net fixed assets
It is used to measure the operating performance of the company eg: how efficiently a company is producing sales with its machines and equipments
What does higher fixed asset turnover ratio means?
It indicates that a company has more effectively utilised investment in fixed assets to generate revenue
A higher fixed asset turnover ratio can also indicate that a company is able to generate sales without significantly increasing its investment in fixed assets. This can lead to higher profits and improved financial performance
What does declining higher fixed asset turnover ratio means?
A declining ratio needs to be analysed to understand if it is bad or good. It may be because of decline of sales or may be due to increase in fixed assets which may be because of expansion carried out by the company and its results are yet to be seen in company’s performance.
This could be due to a variety of reasons, such as outdated equipment or machinery, increased competition, or changes in the market environment
What is working capital Turnover ratio?
Working Capital Turnover Ratio= Net sales / Average working capital
Working capital turnover ratio is a financial ratio that measures a company’s ability to generate revenue using its working capita
How to calculate average working capital?
Average working capital= Beginning working capital+ Ending Working capital/ 2
What does high working capital turnover ratio means?
It indicates that management is being extremely efficient in using a company’s short term assets and liabilities to support sales .
What does low working capital turnover ratio indicates?
It indicates that business has too many accounts receivables and inventory assets to support it sales, which could eventually lead to an excessive amount of bad debts and obsolete inventory.