Lee Enterprises Inc's Cash & cash equivalent grew by 11.55 % in the Q3 2026 sequentially, faster than Current Liabilities, this led to improvement in Lee Enterprises Inc's Quick Ratio to 0.57 a new company high.

Within Publishing & Information industry 2 other companies have achieved higher Quick Ratio than Lee Enterprises Inc in third quarter 2026. While Quick Ratio total ranking in the third quarter 2026 has deteriorated compared to the prior quarter from 2091 to 2329.

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LEE Quick Ratio	(Jun 28 2026) Q3	(Mar 29 2026) Q2	(Dec 28 2025) Q1	(Sep 28 2025) Q4	(Jun 29 2025) Q3
Y / Y Current Liabilities Change	-11.94 %	-15.45 %	-1.73 %	-1.73 %	6.71 %
Y / Y Cash & cash equivalent Change	320.73 %	1042.26 %	4.07 %	4.07 %	5.21 %
Quick Ratio MRQ	0.57	0.54	0.09	0.09	0.12
LEE's Total Ranking	# 2329	# 2091	# 1837	# 3092	# 2800
Seq. Current Liabilities Change	5.54 %	-13.23 %	0 %	-3.83 %	1.33 %
Seq. Cash & cash equivalent Change	11.55 %	433.34 %	0 %	-29.28 %	202.85 %

Quick Ratio third quarter 2026 Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Publishing & Information Industry	# 3
Services Sector	# 216
Overall Market	# 2329

Quick Ratio Statistics
High	Average	Low
0.57	0.16	0.03
(Jun 28 2026)		(Sep 25 2011)

Financial Statements
Lee Enterprises Inc's Current Liabilities	$ 104 Millions	Visit LEE's Balance sheet
Lee Enterprises Inc's Cash & cash equivalent	$ 59 Millions	Visit LEE's Balance sheet
Source of LEE's Sales		Visit LEE's Sales by Geography

Cumulative Lee Enterprises Inc's Quick Ratio

LEE's Quick Ratio for the trailling 12 Months

LEE Quick Ratio	(Jun 28 2026) 12 Months	(Mar 29 2026) 12 Months	(Dec 28 2025) 12 Months	(Sep 28 2025) 12 Months	(Jun 29 2025) 12 Months
Y / Y Current Liabilities TTM Growth	-7.75 %	-3.18 %	2.4 %	3.07 %	0.41 %
Y / Y Cash & cash equivalent TTM Growth	249.3 %	134.35 %	-20.44 %	-28.51 %	-35.21 %
Quick Ratio TTM	0.31	0.2	0.08	0.08	0.08
Total Ranking TTM	# 4075	# 3065	# 3150	# 3310	# 3221
Seq. Current Liabilities TTM Growth	-3.18 %	-3.9 %	-0.43 %	-0.43 %	1.62 %
Seq. Cash & cash equivalent TTM Growth	51.85 %	125.39 %	1.02 %	1.03 %	1.88 %

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On the trailing twelve months basis LEE Cash & cash equivalent more than doubled by 320.73 % in Q3 2026 year on year, while Current Liabilities rose to $104 millions, this led to increase in in Lee Enterprises Inc's Quick Ratio to 0.31, above LEE average Quick Ratio.
Quick Ratio is the average cumulative value over the last four quarters.

Among companies operating within Publishing & Information industry 10 other companies have achieved higher Quick Ratio than Lee Enterprises Inc. While Quick Ratio total ranking has deteriorated compared to the previous twelve months ending in the second quarter 2026 from 3065 to 4075.

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TTM Quick Ratio Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Within the Publishing & Information Industry	# 11
Services Sector	# 535
Within the Market	# 4075

trailing twelve months Quick Ratio Statistics
High	Average	Low
0.31	0.15	0.06
(Jun 28 2026)		(Jun 24 2012)

Companies with similar Quick Ratio in the quarter ending Jun 28 2026, within Publishing & Information Industry	Quick Ratio	Jun 28 2026 MRQ Cash & cash equivalent	Jun 28 2026 MRQ Current Liabilities
The New York Times Company	1.02	$ 660.812 Millions	$ 647.721 Millions
News Corporation	0.76	$ 2,095.000 Millions	$ 2,761.000 Millions
Lee Enterprises Inc	0.57	$ 59.428 Millions	$ 103.805 Millions
Sobr Safe Inc	0.46	$ 0.429 Millions	$ 0.926 Millions
Cimpress Plc	0.31	$ 248.851 Millions	$ 793.680 Millions
Cpi Card Group Inc	0.24	$ 21.368 Millions	$ 90.140 Millions
Scholastic Corporation	0.22	$ 134.900 Millions	$ 607.200 Millions
John Wiley and Sons Inc	0.15	$ 106.426 Millions	$ 688.822 Millions
Deluxe Corporation	0.13	$ 42.000 Millions	$ 315.800 Millions

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