Unidentified Industries

Use the following information to answer the next two questions.

	Company A	Company B	Company C
Assets
Cash and marketable securities	45%	7%	12%
Accounts receivable	8	8	6
Inventories	0	12	2
Other current assets	0	16	5
Plant & equipment (net)	17	15	60
Other assets	27	42	15
Total assets	100%	100%	100%
Liabilities and Net Worth
Accounts payable	2%	7%	2%
Accrued items	3	5	15
Other current liabilities	11	23	12
Long-term debt	16	11	30
Other liabilities	3	35	11
Preferred stock	0	0	0
Common stock	65	19	29
Total liabilities and net worth	100%	100%	100%
Selected Financial Data
Current assets/current liabilities	3.5	1.2	0.8
Cash, MS and ARs/current liabilities	3.3	0.8	0.6
Inventory turnover (X)	NA	2.9	87.3
Receivables collection period (days)	53.8	63.1	5.4
Total debt/total assets	0.189	0.457	0.413
Long-term debt/capitalization	0.195	0.447	0.493
Revenue/total assets	0.47	0.50	2.11
Net profit/revenue	-0.064	0.021	0.053
Net profit/total assets	-0.007	0.02	0.117
Total assets/net worth	1.55	5.12	3.45
Net profit/net worth	-0.049	0.055	0.277
EBIT/interest expense	NA	4.8	37.5
EBITDA/revenue	0.115	0.135	0.141

Number one has already been answered. This is the following question:

2. One of these companies is LinkedIn (the social network), one is Panera (the food and beverage company), and one is Caterpillar (the manufacturing company). Which is which? Give reasons for why you think so.