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Future Retail Current ratio

What is the Current ratio of Future Retail?

The Current ratio of Future Retail Limited is 0.69

What is the definition of Current ratio?



Current ratio is a liquidity ratio that measures whether or not a company has enough resources to meet its short-term obligations.

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The current ratio is an indication of a company's liquidity and measures the capability to meet a company's short-term obligations. It compares a firm's current assets to its current liabilities, and is expressed as current assets divided by current liabilities. The ratio is only useful when two companies are compared within industry because inter industry business operations differ substantially. To determine liquidity, the current ratio is not as helpful as the quick ratio, because it includes all those assets that may not be easily liquidated, like prepaid expenses and inventory.

Acceptable current ratios vary from industry to industry. In many cases an investor would consider a high current ratio to be better than a low current ratio, because a high current ratio indicates that the company is more likely to pay the investor back. Large current ratios are not always a good sign for investors. If the company's current ratio is too high it may indicate that the company is not efficiently using its current assets or its short-term financing facilities. If current liabilities exceed current assets the current ratio will be less than 1. A current ratio of less than 1 indicates that the company may have problems meeting its short-term obligations.

Some types of businesses can operate with a current ratio of less than one however. If inventory turns into cash much more rapidly than the accounts payable become due, then the firm's current ratio can comfortably remain less than one. Inventory is valued at the cost of acquiring it and the firm intends to sell the inventory for more than this cost. The sale will therefore generate substantially more cash than the value of inventory on the balance sheet. Low current ratios can also be justified for businesses that can collect cash from customers long before they need to pay their suppliers.

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What does Future Retail do?

Future Retail Limited engages in retailing fashion, household, food, and consumer products in India. The company operates hypermarkets under the Big Bazaar and Big Bazaar GEN NXT brands; supermarkets under the HyperCity and foodworld brands; neighborhood food and grocery stores under the Easyday Club and Heritage Fresh brand names; fashion stores under the fbb brand; lifestyle food superstore under the Foodhall brand; and travel convenience stores under the WH Smith brand. It also operates lifestyle consumer electronics stores under the name eZone brand name. As of March 31, 2021, the company operated 1,308 stores comprising 285 Big Bazaar/ Hypercity stores, 88 fbb stores, 8 Foodhall, and 927 small format stores. The company was formerly known as Bharti Retail Limited and changed its name to Future Retail Limited in May 2016. Future Retail Limited was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Mumbai, India.

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