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"Please, I need someone to help me solve this problem for the last four fiscal years ( 2015, 2016,2017, and 2018) as soon as possible!

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This is your second interview with a prestigious brokerage firm for a job as an equity analyst. You survived the morning interviews with the department manager and the Vice President of Equity. Everything has gone so well that they want to test your ability as an analyst. You are seated in a room with a computer and a list with the names of two companies—Ford (F) and Microsoft (MSFT). You have 90 minutes to complete the following tasks:

1. Download the annual income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for the last four fiscal years from MarketWatch (www.marketwatch.com). Enter each company’s stock symbol and then go to “financials.” Export the statements to Excel by right-clicking while the cursor is inside each statement.
2. Find historical stock prices for each firm from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com). Enter your stock symbol, click “Historical Prices” in the left column, and enter the proper date range to cover the last day of the month corresponding to the date of each financial statement. Use the closing stock prices (not the adjusted close). To calculate the firm’s market capitalization at each date, we multiply the number of shares outstanding (see “Basic Weighted Shares Outstanding” on the income statement) by the firm’s historic stock price.
3. For each of the four years of statements, compute the following ratios for each firm:

   Valuation Ratios
   Price-Earnings Ratio (for EPS use Diluted EPS Total)
   Market-to-Book Ratio
   Enterprise Value-to-EBITDA
   (For debt, include long-term and short-term debt; for cash, include marketable securities.)

   Profitability Ratios
   Operating Margin (Use Operating Income after Depreciation)
   Net Profit Margin
   Return on Equity

   Financial Strength Ratios
   Current Ratio
   Book Debt–Equity Ratio
   Market Debt–Equity Ratio
   Interest Coverage Ratio (EBIT ÷ Interest Expense)"

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