Just give a general response or observation to this in a few paragraphs.

For this exercise, I calculated financial ratios for my company, Snap-on Incorporated. I calculated the last five years of four different financial ratios so that I could view a trend.

	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Gross Margin	49.9907	49.524	49.8601	49.1619	48.3357
Operating Margin	25.5594	23.9253	25.102	22.8108	20.8897
Net Profit Margin	18.1757	15.1265	15.9282	14.2776	12.8718
ROI - Return on Investment	17.1284	15.3574	16.7345	14.901	13.9929

The trend of gross margin remains relatively stable over the five-year span, and remains pretty high at just under 50%. The operating margin is a measure of profitability and has increased about 22% over the last five years. The net profit margin reflects how much net income a business makes from each dollar of sales, and has increased substantially by 40% over the last five years. The ROI calculates the profits of an investment of the original cost, and has increased by just under 25%. Overall, these financial ratios tell me that Snap-on is a profitable company. The profit margin is pretty good, and the company has made positive investments which have increased profits and operating income.