Post Accounts Payable vs Inventory Analysis

POST Stock

USD 115.80 2.87 2.54%

Post Holdings financial indicator trend analysis is much more than just breaking down Post Holdings prevalent accounting drivers to predict future trends. We encourage investors to analyze account correlations over time for multiple indicators to determine whether Post Holdings is a good investment. Please check the relationship between Post Holdings Accounts Payable and its Inventory accounts. Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Post Holdings. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in state.

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Accounts Payable vs Inventory

Accounts Payable vs Inventory Correlation Analysis

The overlapping area represents the amount of trend that can be explained by analyzing historical patterns of Post Holdings Accounts Payable account and Inventory. At this time, the significance of the direction appears to have almost identical trend.

The correlation between Post Holdings' Accounts Payable and Inventory is 0.93. Overlapping area represents the amount of variation of Accounts Payable that can explain the historical movement of Inventory in the same time period over historical financial statements of Post Holdings, assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical values of Post Holdings' Accounts Payable and Inventory is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these accounts tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which Accounts Payable of Post Holdings are associated (or correlated) with its Inventory. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when Inventory has no effect on the direction of Accounts Payable i.e., Post Holdings' Accounts Payable and Inventory go up and down completely randomly.

Correlation Coefficient

0.93

Relationship Direction	Positive
Relationship Strength	Very Strong

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Accounts Payable

An accounting item on the balance sheet that represents Post Holdings obligation to pay off a short-term debt to its creditors. The accounts payable entry is usually reported under current liabilities. If accounts payable of Post Holdings are not paid within the agreed terms, the payables are considered to be in default, which may trigger a penalty or interest payment, or the revocation of additional credit from the supplier. Accounts payable may also be considered a source of cash, since they represent funds being borrowed from suppliers. Given these cash flow considerations, suppliers have a natural inclination to push for shorter payment terms, while creditors want to lengthen the payment terms. The amount a company owes to suppliers or vendors for products or services received but not yet paid for. It represents the company's short-term liabilities.

Inventory

Most indicators from Post Holdings' fundamental ratios are interrelated and interconnected. However, analyzing fundamental ratios indicators one by one will only give a small insight into Post Holdings current financial condition. On the other hand, looking into the entire matrix of fundamental ratios indicators, and analyzing their relationships over time can provide a more complete picture of the company financial strength now and in the future. Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Post Holdings. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in state.

For more information on how to buy Post Stock please use our How to Invest in Post Holdings guide.Tax Provision is likely to gain to about 120.4 M in 2024, whereas Selling General Administrative is likely to drop slightly above 651 M in 2024.

	2021	2022	2023	2024 (projected)
Gross Profit	1.5B	1.9B	2.3B	1.2B
Total Revenue	5.9B	7.0B	7.9B	4.1B

Gross Profit Total Revenue

Post Holdings fundamental ratios Correlations

	Total Assets	Total Stockholder Equity	Other Assets	Common Stock Shares Outstanding	Non Current Liabilities Total	Other Stockholder Equity	Total Liab	Short Long Term Debt Total	Net Debt	Cash	Cash And Short Term Investments	Other Current Liab	Total Current Liabilities	Other Liab	Property Plant And Equipment Net	Current Deferred Revenue	Accounts Payable	Non Current Assets Total	Non Currrent Assets Other	Long Term Debt	Net Receivables	Good Will	Inventory	Other Current Assets	Property Plant And Equipment Gross	Total Current Assets
Total Assets		0.9	0.03	0.93	0.99	0.76	0.99	0.99	0.98	0.68	0.69	0.96	0.96	0.82	0.93	0.86	0.96	0.98	-0.06	0.98	0.93	0.96	0.93	0.42	0.94	0.94
Total Stockholder Equity	0.9		-0.2	0.82	0.84	0.73	0.85	0.84	0.86	0.47	0.49	0.9	0.86	0.65	0.93	0.84	0.91	0.88	0.11	0.85	0.93	0.86	0.95	0.27	0.92	0.82
Other Assets	0.03	-0.2		0.11	0.09	-0.23	0.08	0.11	0.13	-0.04	-0.05	0.03	0.05	0.41	0.03	-0.03	0.0	0.16	0.09	0.1	-0.09	0.16	-0.11	0.34	0.03	-0.04
Common Stock Shares Outstanding	0.93	0.82	0.11		0.93	0.75	0.93	0.94	0.91	0.75	0.76	0.89	0.88	0.85	0.89	0.91	0.87	0.92	-0.11	0.94	0.83	0.9	0.86	0.25	0.9	0.91
Non Current Liabilities Total	0.99	0.84	0.09	0.93		0.76	1.0	0.99	0.97	0.73	0.74	0.94	0.94	0.85	0.89	0.83	0.92	0.96	-0.09	0.99	0.89	0.94	0.88	0.4	0.91	0.94
Other Stockholder Equity	0.76	0.73	-0.23	0.75	0.76		0.75	0.71	0.65	0.74	0.74	0.75	0.66	0.66	0.6	0.71	0.65	0.68	0.03	0.71	0.73	0.6	0.68	0.12	0.61	0.82
Total Liab	0.99	0.85	0.08	0.93	1.0	0.75		0.99	0.98	0.72	0.73	0.95	0.95	0.84	0.9	0.84	0.93	0.97	-0.09	0.99	0.89	0.95	0.89	0.42	0.92	0.94
Short Long Term Debt Total	0.99	0.84	0.11	0.94	0.99	0.71	0.99		0.99	0.7	0.71	0.94	0.95	0.82	0.93	0.86	0.94	0.98	-0.09	1.0	0.9	0.97	0.91	0.39	0.94	0.94
Net Debt	0.98	0.86	0.13	0.91	0.97	0.65	0.98	0.99		0.58	0.6	0.94	0.96	0.79	0.95	0.83	0.95	0.99	-0.07	0.99	0.91	0.99	0.93	0.43	0.95	0.88
Cash	0.68	0.47	-0.04	0.75	0.73	0.74	0.72	0.7	0.58		1.0	0.62	0.6	0.67	0.52	0.67	0.56	0.6	-0.13	0.71	0.53	0.55	0.5	0.07	0.56	0.85
Cash And Short Term Investments	0.69	0.49	-0.05	0.76	0.74	0.74	0.73	0.71	0.6	1.0		0.63	0.61	0.68	0.53	0.69	0.58	0.61	-0.15	0.72	0.55	0.56	0.51	0.1	0.58	0.87
Other Current Liab	0.96	0.9	0.03	0.89	0.94	0.75	0.95	0.94	0.94	0.62	0.63		0.96	0.8	0.93	0.87	0.93	0.95	0.03	0.94	0.89	0.93	0.93	0.45	0.93	0.89
Total Current Liabilities	0.96	0.86	0.05	0.88	0.94	0.66	0.95	0.95	0.96	0.6	0.61	0.96		0.77	0.93	0.86	0.95	0.96	-0.13	0.95	0.89	0.96	0.93	0.51	0.95	0.89
Other Liab	0.82	0.65	0.41	0.85	0.85	0.66	0.84	0.82	0.79	0.67	0.68	0.8	0.77		0.73	0.79	0.72	0.83	0.09	0.82	0.64	0.77	0.65	0.49	0.74	0.79
Property Plant And Equipment Net	0.93	0.93	0.03	0.89	0.89	0.6	0.9	0.93	0.95	0.52	0.53	0.93	0.93	0.73		0.9	0.95	0.96	0.02	0.93	0.91	0.97	0.97	0.34	1.0	0.84
Current Deferred Revenue	0.86	0.84	-0.03	0.91	0.83	0.71	0.84	0.86	0.83	0.67	0.69	0.87	0.86	0.79	0.9		0.86	0.87	0.04	0.86	0.8	0.86	0.86	0.3	0.9	0.88
Accounts Payable	0.96	0.91	0.0	0.87	0.92	0.65	0.93	0.94	0.95	0.56	0.58	0.93	0.95	0.72	0.95	0.86		0.96	-0.09	0.95	0.95	0.97	0.93	0.49	0.96	0.9
Non Current Assets Total	0.98	0.88	0.16	0.92	0.96	0.68	0.97	0.98	0.99	0.6	0.61	0.95	0.96	0.83	0.96	0.87	0.96		-0.01	0.98	0.92	0.99	0.94	0.42	0.96	0.89
Non Currrent Assets Other	-0.06	0.11	0.09	-0.11	-0.09	0.03	-0.09	-0.09	-0.07	-0.13	-0.15	0.03	-0.13	0.09	0.02	0.04	-0.09	-0.01		-0.08	0.04	-0.07	0.02	-0.18	-0.02	-0.09
Long Term Debt	0.98	0.85	0.1	0.94	0.99	0.71	0.99	1.0	0.99	0.71	0.72	0.94	0.95	0.82	0.93	0.86	0.95	0.98	-0.08		0.9	0.97	0.91	0.39	0.94	0.94
Net Receivables	0.93	0.93	-0.09	0.83	0.89	0.73	0.89	0.9	0.91	0.53	0.55	0.89	0.89	0.64	0.91	0.8	0.95	0.92	0.04	0.9		0.92	0.93	0.33	0.91	0.88
Good Will	0.96	0.86	0.16	0.9	0.94	0.6	0.95	0.97	0.99	0.55	0.56	0.93	0.96	0.77	0.97	0.86	0.97	0.99	-0.07	0.97	0.92		0.93	0.45	0.97	0.87
Inventory	0.93	0.95	-0.11	0.86	0.88	0.68	0.89	0.91	0.93	0.5	0.51	0.93	0.93	0.65	0.97	0.86	0.93	0.94	0.02	0.91	0.93	0.93		0.28	0.97	0.84
Other Current Assets	0.42	0.27	0.34	0.25	0.4	0.12	0.42	0.39	0.43	0.07	0.1	0.45	0.51	0.49	0.34	0.3	0.49	0.42	-0.18	0.39	0.33	0.45	0.28		0.35	0.36
Property Plant And Equipment Gross	0.94	0.92	0.03	0.9	0.91	0.61	0.92	0.94	0.95	0.56	0.58	0.93	0.95	0.74	1.0	0.9	0.96	0.96	-0.02	0.94	0.91	0.97	0.97	0.35		0.87
Total Current Assets	0.94	0.82	-0.04	0.91	0.94	0.82	0.94	0.94	0.88	0.85	0.87	0.89	0.89	0.79	0.84	0.88	0.9	0.89	-0.09	0.94	0.88	0.87	0.84	0.36	0.87

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Post Holdings Account Relationship Matchups

Post Holdings fundamental ratios Accounts

	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024 (projected)
Total Assets	12.1B	12.4B	11.3B	11.6B	12.9B	8.6B
Total Stockholder Equity	2.9B	2.7B	3.3B	3.8B	4.1B	2.6B
Other Assets	184.8M	703.5M	114.5M	166.4M	149.8M	142.3M
Common Stock Shares Outstanding	70.1M	65.3M	62.7M	67M	66.9M	57.5M
Liabilities And Stockholders Equity	12.1B	12.4B	11.3B	11.6B	12.9B	8.5B
Non Current Liabilities Total	8.3B	8.3B	6.9B	7.0B	7.8B	5.3B
Other Stockholder Equity	2.7B	2.4B	2.4B	2.6B	2.3B	2.5B
Total Liab	9.3B	9.4B	7.7B	7.8B	8.8B	6.2B
Short Long Term Debt Total	7.0B	7.0B	6.0B	6.2B	6.8B	5.0B
Net Debt	5.8B	6.2B	5.4B	6.1B	6.0B	4.3B
Cash	1.2B	817.1M	586.5M	93.3M	787.4M	671.1M
Cash And Short Term Investments	1.2B	817.1M	681.3M	103.9M	787.4M	678.4M
Other Current Liab	362M	493.3M	325.4M	391.2M	475.9M	315.4M
Total Current Liabilities	974.4M	1.0B	823.8M	805.3M	944.9M	670.5M
Other Liab	930M	1.4B	793.5M	781.5M	898.7M	795.3M
Property Plant And Equipment Net	1.8B	1.8B	1.8B	2.2B	2.3B	1.5B
Accounts Payable	339.8M	384.2M	452.7M	368.8M	458.2M	296.1M
Non Current Assets Total	9.9B	10.3B	9.1B	10.2B	10.6B	8.2B
Non Currrent Assets Other	(455.5M)	(160.4M)	(421.6M)	166.4M	464.2M	487.4M
Long Term Debt	7.0B	6.9B	6.0B	6.0B	6.9B	5.0B
Net Receivables	441.6M	372.6M	544.2M	512.4M	582.9M	386.6M
Good Will	4.4B	4.6B	4.3B	4.6B	4.7B	3.7B
Inventory	599.4M	594.5M	549.1M	789.9M	754.2M	484.8M
Other Current Assets	58.9M	572.4M	448.8M	72.3M	107.1M	147.5M
Property Plant And Equipment Gross	1.9B	1.8B	1.8B	2.0B	2.3B	1.4B
Total Current Assets	2.3B	2.1B	2.2B	1.5B	2.2B	1.7B
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income	(29.3M)	42.9M	(262.9M)	(135.1M)	6.4M	6.7M
Short Term Debt	264.9M	149.5M	26.6M	23.9M	1.2M	1.1M
Intangible Assets	3.2B	3.1B	2.7B	3.2B	3.1B	2.7B
Property Plant Equipment	1.8B	1.8B	1.9B	2.2B	2.5B	1.4B
Net Tangible Assets	(4.8B)	(1.5B)	(3.8B)	(3.9B)	(3.6B)	(3.7B)
Retained Earnings	208.6M	347.3M	1.1B	1.4B	1.8B	1.9B
Capital Surpluse	3.7B	4.2B	4.3B	4.7B	5.5B	3.7B

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