Choose a public company, provide a link to the company's annual report on its website, and give a short explanation about the company. State your reasons for your interest in the company. The financial statements tell a story about the financial health of a business at a given point in time. The purpose of this SLP is to apply ratio analysis to assess financial health to a publicly held corporation. Use the financial statement identified to compute three ratios. Compute one ratio (your choice) for each of the three following categories.

• Liquidity,
• debt service, and
• profitability.

Comment on the ratios by answering the following questions. Go to IBIS (Trident Library, Additional Library Resources, IBISWorld), locate a U.S. specialty industry report, which you feel is appropriate for the company you are analyzing. Use the statistics tab to view the ratios.

• What is the purpose of computing the ratios?
• What did you learn from reviewing the three ratios?
• What is your conclusion about the health of the company?
• How do you evaluate the health of the company relative to the industry average and/or leaders in the industry?