Discuss trends and differences of the below ratios.

Can you explain them? Which ones stand out?

	Costco		General Mills		Coca-Cola
	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017
Liquidity
Current Ratio	1.02	0.99	0.56	0.76	0.86	1.34
Quick Ratio	0.46	0.43	0.28	0.41	0.66	0.9
Cash Ratio	0.3	0.26	0.05	0.14	0.55	0.76
Efficiency
Days Receivables			39	33	39	38
Days of Inventory	32.72	32	39.05	33.41	39.21	36.96
Financial Leverage
Debt-to-assets ratio	0.17	0.19	0.52	0.43	0.52	0.54
Long-term-debt-to-assets ratio	0.16	0.18	0.66	0.61	0.57	0.62
Debt-to-equity ratio	0.5	0.59	2.58	2.19	2.32	2.51
Financial Leverage	3.19	3.37	4.99	5.04	4.9	5.15
Interest cover ratio	28.94	31.14	6.76	8.8	10.09	9.02
Profitability
Gross profit margin	13.01	13.29	34.54	35.65	61.9	62.1
Operating profit margin	3.16	3.19	15.37	15.95	26.68	21.41
Net profit margin	2.21	2.08	13.54	10.61	18.75	3.44
Pretax profit margin	3.14	3.13	13.56	14.54	23.97	19.02
Return on assets	7.91%	7.43%	7.06	7.79	7.78	1.45
Return on equity	25.61%	23.19%	33.31	36.3	33.98	6.76
Growth & Valuation
P/E Ratio	30.51	25.7	10.2	17.32	140.1	28.91
Activity
Asset turnover	3.67	3.34	0.51	0.72	0.38	0.4
A/R turnover	82.94	88.11	9.35	10.92	9.38	9.66
Inventory turnover	11.16	11.38	6.28	6.78	4.26	5.16
A/P Turnover	10.96	11.64	3.76	4.74	4.71	5.79
Cash conversion cycle	4	5	0	10	48	48