Go to http://finance.yahoo.com/ and locate current financial in-formation for Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) and McDonald's Corp. (MCD), both in terms of each company's current financial state-ments and stock market prices. With this information:

a. Compute the financial ratios for both firms for the most re-cent year, and evaluate the relative performance of the two firms in the following areas:

1. Liquidity

2. Asset management efficiency

3. Financing practices (capital structure)

4. Profitability

B. What is each firm's current price-earnings ratio and market-to-book ratio? What do these ratios tell you about how in-vestors value these two firms' future prospects?

C. Based on your analysis what is your personal assessment of the two firms' past performance?

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