Hodnota metriky Current ratio společnosti Horizon Discovery Group plc je 3.08
Current ratio je ukazatel likvidity, který měří, zda má společnost dostatek prostředků k plnění svých krátkodobých závazků.
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.
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a cell engineering company, engages in the design, manufacture, and application of gene editing and gene modulation tools in the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through Screening, Research Reagents, Diagnostics, and BioProduction segments. It provides custom-made and off-the-shelf (OTS) RNAi gene modulation reagents, CRISPR reagents, synthetic SGRNAs, OTS cell models, and custom cell engineering services. The company also offers pooled CRISPR screens; arrayed RNAi and CRISPR screens, drug screens, and immunology assays; and RNAi and CRISPR screening libraries; and human T-Cell CRISPR screening service to meet the requirements of immunology based research in drug discovery. In addition, it provides OTS gene-edited CHO cells and custom CHO cell lines, and custom CHO gene engineering services; and OTS cell-based reference standards, made to order reference standards, and custom cell-based reference standards to evaluate molecular assays on a research use basis. The company serves customers in academic research labs, biopharmaceutical and diagnostics companies, and contract research and manufacturing organizations. It sells its products through direct field sales channel and e-commerce platform. The company has a partnership with the Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop and commercialize base editing, a gene editing technology; strategic collaboration with Mammoth Biosciences to develop CRISPR tools to provide engineered cell lines for the biopharmaceutical industry; and collaboration with St George's University Hospital, London, and the European Molecular Genetics Quality Network to develop reference material for non-invasive prenatal testing. Horizon Discovery Group plc was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.