The task:

1) you will identify fourteen leading companies just based on a series of ratios. Place the letter of the Column that you think matches up with the company/industry.

2) Explain your rationale for each selection by referencing at 3-5 data points with a minimum of one from each of the 3 sectionsassetsliabilitiesfinancial ratios

Industries and companies to identify in the Table

Industry Company Column (Letter that matches up with company/industry)

1) Airline Southwest

2) Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble

3) Commercial bank Citigroup

4) Computer software developer Microsoft

5) Department store chain, with its own brand charge card Nordstrom

6) Electric and gas utility, with 80 percent of its revenue from electricity sales and 20 percent of its revenue from natural gas sales Duke Energy

7) Online direct factory-to-customer personal computer vendor, with more than half of its sales to business customers and most its manufacturing outsourced Dell

8) Online retailer Amazon 9) Parcel delivery service UPS

10) Pharmaceutical company Pfizer

11) Restaurant chain Eataly 12) Retail drug chain Duane Reade 13) Retail grocery chain Whole Foods

14) Social networking service Facebook

Representative balance sheets (The Table Needed)

The Unidentified Industries Game 1 E 25% 16% 16. 20%. 16% 64% 5 25 Balance sheet Percentages Assets Cash and Market Sex Accounts like no Our current Plan and Eument] Other Posts Total Arts 6%. 21% 2 2 3 2 39 219 0 5% 10% 10% 1%. 22% 13%. 100% 3 6% 47% 5% 68% 46%. 16. 17% 4. 32% 5%. 100%. 60%. 36 . 51% 100% 2 . 31% 100%. 100% 10 100 100 100% 100 100% 100% 100% 100%. O. 0 11% 49 . 24%. 5% 6% 15. 6. 8 4%. 13 12% 21% 15% 3. 18% 6. 10%. 2% 12% Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity Notes Payable Accounts Payable Accredite Other Current Liabili Lahitinam Lorem de Other Liabilities Preferred Stock Shareholders' Equity Total Liabilities and Shareholders Equity 11%. 25%. 10%. 12% 3. 13 15% 20%. 100% 26. 100% 2396 0 36%. 100% 23%. 100% 44% 100% 11%. 100% 5. 100%. 78% 100% 25% 100% 55% 100% 37% 100 10%. 100 100% 100% 10.71 101 1.19 0.97 1.12 0.78 7.6 1.23 0.40 1.36 0.20 0.18 3.7 2.64 2.07 16 77 1.67 NA 2.53 10.4 82 0.40 315 1.53 5.5 NA 8 NA 52 QO 0.10 0.36 0.05 51 0.36 0.47 0.122 0.63 0.56 Financial Rotos ai Aanasila/it Liatitin Cash, Mirkble Securile & A.R./ Current Lial Hilary Turner Accounts Receivable Collection Period Total Derbst/Total Asturba Lan Trem Derby Capitaluation Purv/ Total Aswers Neri Profile Nel Profil Total Awwis Total Aswers / Shareholders. Equity Nel ProfiShareholders' Equity EBIT/Inter Expert EBITDA 0.59 091 0.71 NA 7 0.17 0.29 0919 0.025 63 0.19 0.33 1103 0.042 OLOSO 0.62 0.33 0.70 1.305 0.015 0.021 0.14 0.547 0.31 0.11 0.35 0.010 0.57 1513 0.051 0.01 0004 11 0.16 0.18 2.141 0.030 0.054 183 0.117 35.71 0.06 0.27 1872 -0.001 -0.001 3.97 -0.005 7.35 0.05 0.107 0.004 -0.042 2000 -0.122 0.078 2.27 0.17 12.26 0.45 0.158 180 0.277 0.015 0.051 5.85 0.355 0.177 4.00 0.703 13.57 0.354 0.016 2.77 0.043 2.52 2.66 0.050 0.171 3.42 0.06 63.06 0.005 10.55 0.23 11.16 0107 5.08 0.0 NA 0.15 0.00 0.40 0.05 0.15 0.03 The Unidentified Industries Game 1 E 25% 16% 16. 20%. 16% 64% 5 25 Balance sheet Percentages Assets Cash and Market Sex Accounts like no Our current Plan and Eument] Other Posts Total Arts 6%. 21% 2 2 3 2 39 219 0 5% 10% 10% 1%. 22% 13%. 100% 3 6% 47% 5% 68% 46%. 16. 17% 4. 32% 5%. 100%. 60%. 36 . 51% 100% 2 . 31% 100%. 100% 10 100 100 100% 100 100% 100% 100% 100%. O. 0 11% 49 . 24%. 5% 6% 15. 6. 8 4%. 13 12% 21% 15% 3. 18% 6. 10%. 2% 12% Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity Notes Payable Accounts Payable Accredite Other Current Liabili Lahitinam Lorem de Other Liabilities Preferred Stock Shareholders' Equity Total Liabilities and Shareholders Equity 11%. 25%. 10%. 12% 3. 13 15% 20%. 100% 26. 100% 2396 0 36%. 100% 23%. 100% 44% 100% 11%. 100% 5. 100%. 78% 100% 25% 100% 55% 100% 37% 100 10%. 100 100% 100% 10.71 101 1.19 0.97 1.12 0.78 7.6 1.23 0.40 1.36 0.20 0.18 3.7 2.64 2.07 16 77 1.67 NA 2.53 10.4 82 0.40 315 1.53 5.5 NA 8 NA 52 QO 0.10 0.36 0.05 51 0.36 0.47 0.122 0.63 0.56 Financial Rotos ai Aanasila/it Liatitin Cash, Mirkble Securile & A.R./ Current Lial Hilary Turner Accounts Receivable Collection Period Total Derbst/Total Asturba Lan Trem Derby Capitaluation Purv/ Total Aswers Neri Profile Nel Profil Total Awwis Total Aswers / Shareholders. Equity Nel ProfiShareholders' Equity EBIT/Inter Expert EBITDA 0.59 091 0.71 NA 7 0.17 0.29 0919 0.025 63 0.19 0.33 1103 0.042 OLOSO 0.62 0.33 0.70 1.305 0.015 0.021 0.14 0.547 0.31 0.11 0.35 0.010 0.57 1513 0.051 0.01 0004 11 0.16 0.18 2.141 0.030 0.054 183 0.117 35.71 0.06 0.27 1872 -0.001 -0.001 3.97 -0.005 7.35 0.05 0.107 0.004 -0.042 2000 -0.122 0.078 2.27 0.17 12.26 0.45 0.158 180 0.277 0.015 0.051 5.85 0.355 0.177 4.00 0.703 13.57 0.354 0.016 2.77 0.043 2.52 2.66 0.050 0.171 3.42 0.06 63.06 0.005 10.55 0.23 11.16 0107 5.08 0.0 NA 0.15 0.00 0.40 0.05 0.15 0.03