Obtain Year$-$end Stock Prices and Industry Ratios:

You can find historical stock prices on www$.$bigcharts.com of finance.yahoo.com At either site, click on the Historical Quotes tab. Enter the balance sheet date and click Lookup. Use the closing price for each fiscal year end, please note that Apples' year end is $9/30.$ To find the number of shares outstanding and dividends per share, you can look at the bottom portion of the income statement.

Industry Ratios

Industry ratios can be obtained from either investing.com or moneycentral.msn$.$com. For investing.com,once you have entered the stock ticker, go to Financials and then Ratios. At moneycentral.msn$.$com, go to Markets, enter the stock ticker, and look under Analysis for Ratios.

Copy the above information $($historical stock prices, shares outstanding, industry ratios etc.$)$ into the top portion of the Ratios worksheet of the provided spreadsheet.$$

Gather the necessary information this week.$$ In later modules, you will complete the common$-$size, pro forma financial statements and ratio analysis for Apple Inc..