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Lowe€™s Companies, Inc. (LOW), a major competitor to The Home Depot, Inc. (HD) in the home improvement retail business, operates over 1,800 stores. Lowe€™s recently reported the following end-of-year data (in millions):

Year 3 Year 1 Year 2 $32,732 20,879 11,853 Total assets Total liabilities Total stockholders' equity $31,266 23,612 7,65

a. Compute the ratio of liabilities to stockholders€™ equity for all three years. Round to two decimal places.
b. What conclusions regarding the margin of protection to creditors can you draw from the trend in this ratio for the three years?

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Year 3 Year 1 Year 2 $32,732 20,879 11,853 Total assets Total liabilities Total stockholders' equity $31,266 23,612 7,654 $31,721 21,753 9,968

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