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Company: Apple Inc.
- Income Statement Analysis: In this section, answer the following for the trend analysis: What is the total revenue, total costs of revenue and net income for each year? How have these numbers changed over the three years and what could be some reasons why these numbers have changed the way they have? In addition, pick at least one appropriate (for this statement) ratio or financial in addition to what is provided and calculate that and explain it.
Some commonly used ratios are:
- Beta: A measure of risk that is usually published and not calculated by you (A beta greater than 1 suggests that the company is more volatile/risky than the market)
- Current ratio = Current Assets/Current Liabilities (A current ratio greater than 1 means the company has enough assets to cover all current liabilities should the need arise)
- Quick ratio = (Current Assets Inventory)/Current Liabilities (When you are dealing with a company that carries a lot of inventory, a quick ratio is a better indicator than a current ratio because it acknowledges that inventory is not typically liquid).
- Profit Margin = Net Income/Sales (Represents how much of each dollar in sales remains after all costs are covered)
- Return on Equity = Net income/Total equity (Represents the return for all holders of equity in that company)
- EBIT Return on Assets = EBIT/Total assets (Represents the pre-tax return on the total net investment in the firm from operations or alternatively, how efficiently management has used assets)
- Debt-equity ratio = Total debt/Total equity (Represents the long term solvency or financial leverage in that company)
