Accounts receivable turnover Asset turnover ratio Cash ratio Current ratio Debt ratio Debt to equity ratio Dividend payout Dividend yield Earnings per share Gross profit percentage Inventory turnover Price/earnings ratio Profit margin ratio Rate of return on common stockholders' equity Requirement 2. Compare the companies' performance for 2025 and 2024. Make a recommendation to Calla Canoe Company about investing in these companies. Which company would be a better investment, The Blade Company or Zone Life Vests? Base your answer on ability to pay current liabilities, ability to sell merchandise and collect receivables, ability to pay long-term debt, profitability, and attractiveness as an investment. Start by comparing each company's ability to pay current liabilities. Select the appropriate ratios and identify which company has the stronger ratio. Review the ratios you calculated in Requirement 1. Ability to pay current liabilities MULY tu pay current llaunes Potential investment company Ratios with stronger ratio Next, compare each company's ability to sell merchandise inventory and collect receivables. Select the appropriate ratios and identify which company has the stronger ratio. Review the ratios you calculated in Requirement 1. Ability to sell merchandise inventory and collect receivables Potential investment company Ratios with stronger ratio Compare each company's ability to pay long-term debt. Select the appropriate ratios and identify which company has the stronger ratio. compare each company s admity to pay long-term evt. Select the appropriate rauos anu luenuiy wrich company nas the suonger rauo. Review the ratios you calculated in Requirement 1. Ability to pay long-term debt Potential investment company Ratios with stronger ratio Compare the potential investment companies in terms of profitability. Select the appropriate ratios and identify which company has the stronge ratio. Review the ratios you calculated in Requirement 1. Profitability Potential investment company Ratios with stronger ratio Choose from any list or enter any number in the input fields and then continue to the next question. FOLGT VOLTCL Company Ratios with stronger ratio w compare each potential investment company's stock as an investment. Select the appropriate ratios and identify which company has the onger ratio. (If one of the investment company's ratios is stronger than the other in one year but weaker in the next, base the comparison o 2025 ratios.) view the ratios you calculated in Requirement 1. Stock as an investment Potential investment company Ratios with stronger ratio Ratio Year BC VLV Current 2025 3.01 2.18 Current 2024 3.29 2.18 Ratio Year BC VLV Cash 2025 0.98 0.72 Cash 2024 1.17 0.61 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 3.53 4.47 Inventory turnover Inventory turnover 2024 3.59 4.49 Ratio Year BC VLV AR turnover 2025 9.65 10.45 AR turnover 2024 9.60 10.21 Ratio Year BC VLV Gross profit % 2025 39.92 % 27.07 % Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 39.92 % 27.07 % Gross profit % Gross profit % 2024 39.77 % 26.68 % Ratio Year BC VLV Debt 2025 33.83 % 59.37 % Debt 2024 31.26 % 62.62 0/ 70 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 0.51 1.46 Debt to equity Debt to equity 2024 0.45 1.67 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 2.85 % 5.03 % Profit margin Profit margin 2024 2.94 % 5.29 % Ratio Year BC VLV Asset turnover 2025 1.46 1.31 Ratio Year BC VLV Asset turnover 2025 1.46 1.31 Asset turnover 2024 1.51 1.23 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 6.20 % 16.84 % ROR on common SE ROR on common SE 2024 6.33 % 18.33 % Year BC VLV Ratio Earnings per share Earnings per share 2025 $ 1.33 $ 2.24 2024 $ 1.44 $ 2.33 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 15.86 20.72 Pricelearnings Price/earnings 2024 23.75 22.16 Ratio Year BC VLV 2025 1.80 % 0.99 % Dividend yield Dividend yield 2024 1.08 % 0.72 % Ratio Year BC VLV % 20.54 % Dividend payout Dividend payout 2025 28.57 2024 25.69 % 15.88 %