Novagold Resources Stock Current Ratio
| NG Stock | CAD 5.15 0.09 1.78% |
NovaGold Resources fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to NovaGold Resources' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of NovaGold Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure NovaGold Resources' 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 NovaGold Resources stock.
| Last Reported | Projected for Next Year | ||
| Current Ratio | 29.31 | 30.78 |
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NovaGold Resources Company Current Ratio Analysis
NovaGold Resources' 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.
Current NovaGold Resources Current Ratio | 63.25 X |
Most of NovaGold Resources' 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, NovaGold Resources is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
NovaGold Current Ratio Driver Correlations
Understanding the fundamental principles of building solid financial models for NovaGold Resources is extremely important. It helps to project a fair market value of NovaGold Stock properly, considering its historical fundamentals such as Current Ratio. Since NovaGold Resources' main accounts across its financial reports are all linked and dependent on each other, it is essential to analyze all possible correlations between related accounts. However, instead of reviewing all of NovaGold Resources' historical financial statements, investors can examine the correlated drivers to determine its overall health. This can be effectively done using a conventional correlation matrix of NovaGold Resources' interrelated accounts and indicators.
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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).
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, NovaGold Resources has a Current Ratio of 63 times. This is much higher than that of the Metals & Mining sector and notably higher than that of the Materials industry. The current ratio for all Canada stocks is notably lower than that of the firm.
NovaGold Current Ratio Peer Comparison
Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses NovaGold Resources' 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 NovaGold Resources could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing NovaGold Resources by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.NovaGold Resources is currently under evaluation in current ratio category among its peers.
NovaGold Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | -17.91 | ||||
| Return On Asset | -0.12 | ||||
| Current Valuation | 1.75 B | ||||
| Shares Outstanding | 334.57 M | ||||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 26.46 % | ||||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 58.84 % | ||||
| Number Of Shares Shorted | 3.45 M | ||||
| Price To Earning | (48.33) X | ||||
| Price To Book | 25,740 X | ||||
| EBITDA | (21.77 M) | ||||
| Net Income | (46.8 M) | ||||
| Cash And Equivalents | 63.88 M | ||||
| Cash Per Share | 0.38 X | ||||
| Total Debt | 137.55 M | ||||
| Debt To Equity | 0.94 % | ||||
| Current Ratio | 63.25 X | ||||
| Book Value Per Share | (0.11) X | ||||
| Cash Flow From Operations | (7.79 M) | ||||
| Short Ratio | 13.22 X | ||||
| Earnings Per Share | (0.20) X | ||||
| Target Price | 6.5 | ||||
| Number Of Employees | 13 | ||||
| Beta | 1.1 | ||||
| Market Capitalization | 1.69 B | ||||
| Total Asset | 133.29 M | ||||
| Retained Earnings | (2.06 B) | ||||
| Working Capital | 123.31 M | ||||
| Current Asset | 107.34 M | ||||
| Current Liabilities | 3.05 M | ||||
| Net Asset | 133.29 M |
About NovaGold Resources Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze NovaGold Resources's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of NovaGold Resources using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of NovaGold Resources 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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Pair Trading with NovaGold Resources
One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if NovaGold Resources position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in NovaGold Resources will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.Moving against NovaGold Stock
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The ability to find closely correlated positions to NovaGold Resources could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace NovaGold Resources when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back NovaGold Resources - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling NovaGold Resources to buy it.
The correlation of NovaGold Resources is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as NovaGold Resources moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if NovaGold Resources moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for NovaGold Resources can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in NovaGold Resources. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in estimate. To learn how to invest in NovaGold Stock, please use our How to Invest in NovaGold Resources guide.You can also try the Headlines Timeline module to stay connected to all market stories and filter out noise. Drill down to analyze hype elasticity.