The Current ratio of PAO Severstal is 1.59
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.
PAO Severstal, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated steel and steel-related mining company in Russia, Europe, CIS, the Middle East, North America, Africa, Central and South America, and Asia. The company operates through two divisions, Severstal Resources and Severstal Russian Steel. It produces iron ore pellets, iron ore concentrates, crushed stones, and ferrite strontium powder; and coking and steam coal, and coking coal concentrates; blast furnace unfluxed and fluxed pellets, as well as iron ore to steel producers. The company also provides flat and long-rolled products, hot and cold-rolled flat products, galvanized and color coated products, and long-steel applications for use in automotive and construction industry; pipes for use in oil and gas pipeline projects; and cold-drawn steel products, steel shapes, railway fasteners, low carbon and high carbon wires, nails, steel fiber products, steel wire ropes, wire strands, and steel meshes and fasteners. In addition, it engages in repair and steel construction, air transport, scrap processing, steel machining, and shipping operations. The company offers metal products for construction and service processing, oil and gas, tube and pipe, machinery, automotive, and other companies. PAO Severstal sells its products to regional and national distributors, and directly to end-users, as well as through a network of metal centers. The company was formerly known as Open Joint-Stock Company Severstal and changed its name to PAO Severstal in December 2014. PAO Severstal was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.