Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Stock Current Ratio

VX1 Stock  EUR 429.45  5.60  1.32%   
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Vertex Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Vertex Pharmaceuticals' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock.
  
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Company Current Ratio Analysis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Current Ratio is calculated by dividing the Current Assets of a company by its Current Liabilities. It measures whether or not a company has enough cash or liquid assets to pay its current liability over the next fiscal year. The ratio is regarded as a test of liquidity for a company.

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Current Vertex Pharmaceuticals Current Ratio

    
  3.74 X  
Most of Vertex Pharmaceuticals' fundamental indicators, such as Current Ratio, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Typically, short-term creditors will prefer a high current ratio because it reduces their overall risk. However, investors may prefer a lower current ratio since they are more concerned about growing the business using assets of the company. Acceptable current ratios may vary from one sector to another, but the generally accepted benchmark is to have current assets at least as twice as current liabilities (i.e., Current Ration of 2 to 1).
Competition

In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has a Current Ratio of 3.74 times. This is 28.52% higher than that of the Healthcare sector and 46.57% lower than that of the Biotechnology industry. The current ratio for all Germany stocks is 73.15% lower than that of the firm.

Vertex Current Ratio Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Vertex Pharmaceuticals' direct or indirect competition against its Current Ratio to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Vertex Pharmaceuticals could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vertex Pharmaceuticals by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is currently under evaluation in current ratio category among its peers.

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About Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Vertex Pharmaceuticals using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals financial ratios help investors to determine whether Vertex Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Vertex with respect to the benefits of owning Vertex Pharmaceuticals security.