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Overview
Comparing a company's ratios over time show if a company is changing, for the better or for worse.
Comparing ratios among different companies bring a company's particular characteristics into focus. The class activity uses ratios to identify companies by comparing their similarities and differences between companies within the same sector. A sector is a classification. This activity includes nine sectors: communications, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, healthcare, industrials, materials, technology, and utilities.
Learning Objectives
Compare financial statement ratios to identify critical objective elements of a company and diagnose a company's positives and risks.
Bloomberg Businessweek Pre-Work Article
How Boeing Embraced Trumpism, Squeezed Suppliers, and Made Investors Rich from Bloomberg Businessweek's February 19, 2018 issue
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