Case Summary: Financial analysts, investors, lenders, auditors, and many others perform ratio analysis to help review and evaluate a company's financial statements and financial performance. This analysis allows the stakeholder to understand the company's financial health and gives insights to allow more insightful and, hopefully, more effective decision-making.

AQ4. What impact (if any) does missing data have on the ratios?

AQ5. What might be driving this if one company has a significantly higher debt-to-equity ratio than the other two? How might the DuPont ratios help explain this?