The company is Alphabet Inc. (you can choose any rival for the essay) 1. Display and evaluate the last five years of available financial statements for your company and a key rival within your primary industry. For most of your companies, this would conclude with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. What you will want to include here would be revenue and income for each of the two companies over those five years. A table and/or graphs of that data to display the trends would be essential. 2) Display and evaluate the last five years of financial ratios for both your company and that key rival. You must use at least one ratio from each of the following categories (liquidity, leverage, etc.) that is most relevant to understanding the firm (Ch 6, Appendix B). You must also explain why you selected the ratios youre using why are they better metrics than the other available ratios within the category for your companys primary industry? The two readings on ratio analysis should help with this section of the assignment. 1) Liquidity Ratios 2) Leverage Ratios 3) Activity Ratios 4) Profitability Ratios 3) Compute your companys Weighted Average Cost of Capital. 4) Compute the value of your company and compare it to the firms current Market Capitalization, explaining why your computed value is either higher or lower than its Market Capitalization. 5) Provide a summary section (a paragraph or two) citing your firms key financial strengths and weaknesses.Show more
