Therefore, it might be one of the considerations for the investor to make a decision for whether investing the company. ... This measure allows investor to judge how efficient management of the company at using its asset in order to generated profit. ... However, there is a defect of ROE which it may be misleading the investor as it will ignore the influence of debt. ... It is always recommended an investor to calculate the debt ratio as well as the debt-to-equity ratio in order to analysis the level of risky of a company before investing. ... Meanwhile, the investor also should know about the...

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This is useful to the proprietors and prospective investor because it reveals the overall profitability of the concern. ... Stock Turnover Ratio It is the ratio of cost of goods sold & Average stock. It represents the movements of stock in the particular period. ... Current Assets to Proprietor's Fund Ratio Current Assets to Proprietor's Fund Ratio is calculated by the purpose of calculating the percentage of proprietor's fund invested in current assets. ...

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But what is behind this prosperous firm in the stock market? ... All the traditional accounting and financial analysis at least from the investor's point of view is mainly focused on a strong profit account, low debt, liquidity, assets turnover and so on. What we may think about investing in a company that have increasing losses since quoted from the first time that completely eroded the shareholder's equity. ... An answer can be that investors didn't see the losses but they believe in the future potential of the e-commerce. ...

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Their stores, which originally were set as an attachment to Treasure Island stores, carried a stock of around 25,000 products. ... Their stock is publicly traded at NYSE, listed under the symbol "HD". ... As a publicly held company since 1961, their stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol LOW. ... After completion of the analysis we expect to be able to give a recommendation regarding the companies' financial conditions, such as one given to current and potential investors. ... Both Home Depot and Lowe's offer a stock compensation plan f...

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With their initial offering of stock, they were able to generate $66 million in cash with another $108 million generated by another sale in 2001. The company's cash balance, which was increasing because of these stock sales, fell to $106.3 million at the end of 2002. ... Purchases of Temic, Transilica, and SPaSE with stock in 2000 and 2001 resulted in Intangible Assets and Goodwill that had ending balances in 2001 of $64.8 million and $50 million respectively. ... Microtune's main source of cash was financing activities'mainly the stock sales in 2000 and 2001, and it's main...

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Oracle have a very high Price per Earnings ratio giving an indication that investors have trust in the company in regards to both the expected growth rate as well as the risk attached in regards to the managers abilities to sustain the good performance. ... The 1990 announcements had however hurt the company and the stock price fell drastically although the company is actually still performing very well. ...

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Executive Summary The Microsoft Corporation was founded by partners Bill Gates and Paul Allen with the vision of producing cutting edge software. Beginning with programming challenges in the 1970s, Bill Gates and his partner Paul Allen started a company with a dream to produce software on the la...

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