The following table shows six profitability measures derived from the financial statements of three real companies, labeled A, B, and C in the table. (They are not listed in the table in any particular order.) The real companies are:

• Brunswick Corporation, a leader in the leisure products industry that manufactures boats and marine engines, bowling and billiard products, as well as fitness equipment.
• Consolidated Edison, an electricity and natural gas company whose nonutility operations include energy marketing and fiber-optic telecommunications.
• Foot Locker, a shoe retailer with about 3,600 specialty stores in North America, Australia, and Europe. It also operates Champs Sports, an athletic wear retail chain, and Eastbay, a catalog retailer of athletic equipment and apparel.

Required:
Which company is which? Explain how you identified each company from the data in the table.

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A B C Operating profit margin 0.12 0.04 0.04 Asset turnover ratio 0.47 1.13 1.88 ROA 0.06 0.04 0.07 Common earnings leverage 0.68 0.79 0.90 Financial structure leverage 3.09 2.97 2.28 ROCE 0.12 0.09 0.15