Locate and review two industry-respected and authoritative resources. One resource should focus on financial statement analysis using financial ratios.
The other resource should focus on benchmarking analysis using (1) the time-series (also called trend or vertical) comparison (to the organization itself in the previous years) and (2) cross-sectional (also called peer-group or horizontal) comparison (to its peers and the industry as a whole).•Choose your main company from the following list of 18 companies across sectors and industries.
For the ease of finding financial data, these companies that are all domiciled in the United States should be used. Google is excluded because its parent is not a U.S.-based company. The Financial data of these companies are available in the public domain and easily accessible via
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/legacy/companysearch.html
Company – JP Morgan Chase
You will use the internet to research the financial information of your chosen company and its two top competitors in the same industry.
You can easily copy and paste the financial statements to your paper first, then take care of the formatting. I would understand it if for some reasons you are unable to locate the Statement of Retailed Earnings of your chosen company. However, you must include its balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows.
You need to choose a year and calculate at least two financial ratios in each of the following five groups with a total of at least 12 ratios:
1. Liquidity ratios
2. Solvency ratios
3. Asset management ratios
4. Profitability ratios
5. Market value ratios
