Financial ratios

In reviewing both Nike and Under Armor recent financial statements for profitability, solvency and liquidity there is no clear front-runner. The ratio analysis shows advantages to both companies. When deciding to invest in Nike one must analysis the earnings per share, return on equity, and price earnings ratio. First, comparison of profitability ratio findings show mixed benefits to both Nike (NKE) and Under Armor (UA). With interest in net profit margin, return on equity and earnings per…

Emerging from the Director’s Report 5 Discussion of Corporate Governance Statement 5 Key Financial Ratios 6 An Outlook of Harvey Norman’s Market Value and Investment Opportunities 7 Conclusion and Recommendations 8 Executive Summary This business report will briefly focus explaining the financial health of Harvey Norman Holdings limited. By highlighting key performance factors and results in the Annual Financial Report for 2013, this business reports will help potential investors make…

firm’s profitability negatively. From their study, the firms could maximize their profitability by achieving the lowest level of leverage. Previous researches completed by Gill, Biger and Mathur (2010) and Lazaridis and Tryfonidis (2006) used financial debt ratio as a proxy of leverage. Both of their results indicated negative relationship between firm leverage and the dependent variable. This means that the leverage is inversely with the profitability of firms. The reason given by Lazaridis…

company, and see how the industry played out in the market. I wanted to evaluate their financials as a worldwide company in comparison to smaller companies that are just located within the United States. Kelly Services Inc. appears to have good short term financial standings based on their liquidity ratios listed below: Liquidity Ratio Name Liquidity Ratio Amount Current Ratio 1.50 Quick Ratio 1.50 Cash Ratio .05 Kelly Service Inc (KELYA) Stock Analysis - GuruFocus.com. (n.d.). Retrieved…

Quick Ratio measures the ability of a company to fulfill its current liabilities with its most liquid assets. Overall, a rising quick ratio indicates that the company has enough cash to pay back its current liabilities. From the calculation, a decrease of Sleep Country’s quick ratios is prevalent between the 2014 to 2015 fiscal years. In 2014, the ratio reveals that Sleep Country had approximately $1.06 in quick assets for every $1 in current liabilities. However, in 2015 the quick ratio…

greater than 5% (cost of debt) with only one unfavorable year for financing in 2013 probably due to the impending lawsuit. By the end of 2013, Starbucks had total assets of $11,517 million and total liabilities of $7037 million produced a debt-to-asset ratio of…

purchasing an expensive car that need to satisfy their expectations. Financial Ratios Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) According to the…

Financial Overview Cara Operations is a pretty large company, with total dollar sales of $900.5 million (Cara Reports Q2 2016 Results, 2016). Market capitalization is equal to the current share price of the company multiplied by the number of outstanding shares of the company. Cara’s current stock price is $24.84 and their number of shares outstanding are 24.43M. Therefore, Cara’s market capitalization would be $24.84 x 24.43M = $606.8M. CHL will continue to hold 14,492,906 Multiple Voting…

On the attached Excel workbook, a look at Under Armour and Nike can be found. These two companies will be looked at in order to determine which would be a better company to invest in. In the below document, a more in depth financial performance can be found. Three-Year Returns The first look at these two companies is in regards to their three-year returns. These returns are based off a random seven-day stock period in order to determine how these two companies compare. Under Armour demonstrated…

information available to do a detailed valuaton of the company. However, the current ratio of the company is found to be more than 1 which shows a positive outlook. Current Ratio is a liquidity ratio and measures the ability of a firm to pay its Current (Short term) liabilities with its Current (Short term) assets. A ratio of greater than 1 would indicate availability of more current assets per unit of current liabilities. A ratio of less than 1 is considered to be risky as the firm will face…