Six Financial Ratios

The balance sheet for Bearing Industries, Inc. at the end of 20Y9 indicated the following:

Bonds payable, 8% (due in 30 years)	$1,300,000
Preferred $10 stock, $50 par	48,000
Common stock, $12 par	950,400

Income before income tax was $197,600, and income taxes were $29,600 for the current year. Cash dividends paid on common stock during the current year totaled $76,032. The common stock was selling for $24 per share at the end of the year.

NOTE: To help you read the information above, you need to understand the following:

1) The percentage shown on the Bonds Payable line is the bond's contract rate (or coupon rate)--the annual percentage of interest the bonds will pay, calculated on the total liability shown on the right;

2) The amounts on the right are all in dollars (they are the amounts from the balance sheet). On the stock lines, they represent the total par value of each line. So, to calculate the number of shares outstanding for each type of stock, you would divide the total par value by the per share par value shown on each line on the left; and

3) The "$___ stock" notation on the Preferred stock line means that is the amount of dividend that will be paid per share of outstanding stock in the years the company pays dividends. Remember, preferred stockholders are paid before common stockholders.

Determine each of the following. Round to one decimal place except earnings per share and dividends per share, which should be rounded to the nearest cent.

a. Number of times bond interest charges are earned:			times
b. Number of times preferred dividends are earned			times
c. Earnings per share on common stock (Enter as dollars and cents.)		$
d. Price-earnings ratio
e. Dividends per share of common stock (Enter as dollars and cents.)		$
f. Dividend yield			%