The Current ratio of 4SC AG is 9.98
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.
4SC AG, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing small-molecule drugs that target key indications in cancer with high unmet medical needs. The company's products in clinical development stage include Resminostat, an orally administered histone deacetylase inhibitor that is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma; and Domatinostat, an orally administered small molecule, which is in Phase Ib/II clinical trial for the treatment of melanoma and Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of gastrointestinal tumor. 4SC AG also out-licenses its products to pharma and biotech companies for the treatment of cancer. The company has a collaboration agreement with the Netherlands Cancer Institute to evaluate Domatinostat in the neoadjuvant setting in melanoma. 4SC AG was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Planegg, Germany.