Cousre Textbook:

Ehrhardt, M. C., & Brigham, E. F. (2024). Corporate finance: A focused approach (8th ed.). Cengage Learning.

You will choose a real publicly traded company and apply concepts from Chapter 3 to analyze its financial health and risk. This assignment should be completed in at least 3 pages.

1. Briefly describe the business, industry, competitive environment (at least a page)

2. Retrieve the latest 10k report. You will do a trend analysis comparing the current companys financial performance with the previous year. For example, 2024 compared to 2023. You will analyze this performance by computing one ratio from each of the following categories.

• Liquidity Ratios
• Debt Management Ratios
• Profitability Ratios
• Asset Management Ratios

3. After computing each ratio, explain whether the companys performance is improving or declining? In your rationale, explain what the ratio measures, what is a good ratio and how the ratio could be improved.

4. Overall, whats your assessment of the company? Is this a company that you would invest in?

5. Include any references used (APA format)

A template ) has been provided as a guide to completing this assignment.

Grading Scale:

Evaluation (Total 50 points):

Brief company description 10 points

Ratio analysis 30 points

Company assessment 5 points

Writing and format 5 points