Reference no: EM132221507
Ratio Analysis
OBJECTIVE: You are to assume you have been recently hired by The Company and have been assigned to a team that reports to the CEO of HOME DEPOT.
The head of your team is the CFO who is concerned about HOME DEPOT's current financial performance and comparison against major competitors in the industry and the impact that may have on the firm's stock price.
The CFO would like your team to provide insights that will help them to project future financial performance. Specifically, the primary question to answer is: will HOME DEPOT be financially viable over the next two to three years, and which steps should be done to improve its financial stability?
YOUR SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT
Using the information from the websites the students will develop evaluation of the financial performance for HOME DEPOT.
Background and Industry (one short paragraph).
Create a table that contains the most significant common size financial performance results for the last 3-5 years for THE COMPANY and for the last year for the major competitor. Present the table with this information in your report.
Write about 2-2.5 pages of the analysis of the financial conditions, its stability, and trends.
Develop a specific recommendation, with supporting rationale, as to whether the assigned company's recent trends and results in financial performance is of sufficient financial strength, will THE COMPANY be financially sustainable over the next two to three years, and which steps should be done to improve its financial stability? (about 1 page) .
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