Financial analysis for Southwest Airlines as described later in these instructions

Present one or more ratios to represent each of the four areas of financial analysis:

Profitability-

Liquidity-

Leverage-

Activity-

Then, provide a minimum page discussion of the companys financial situation, using ratios to evaluate the companys profitability, liquidity, leverage, and activity.

Of course, most of these ratios are meaningless by themselves; they only have the meaning as a comparison. You must therefore compare the companys ratios to one or more of three choices:

Ex: Where the company is now versus where it has been over time.