Directions:
Using the accompanying financial statements (excel workbook), assess the home depot concerning liquidity, solvency, profitability, and stock performance. For each area, you should calculate the ratios from appendix a and provide a brief analysis of the ratios calculated. you do not need to perform vertical analysis for this assignment. I include historical stock price information and outstanding common share information below.
Please use appendix b which is an analysis of starbucks as reference for help with this assignment. The starbucks assignment is for your added guidance only. Do not copy and paste starbucks assignment into your assignment.
Some guidance:
You don't need to compare home depot ratios with industry ratios. You can do that for walmart assignment later in the course
please don't over think this assignment. I know this is the only assignment which is outside the textbook so i have provided lots of materials for the same.
You do not need to look beyond the financial statements to complete this assignment.
Answer all the questions. Please submit your work in word or pdf formats only.you can submit an excel file to support calculations, but please "cut and paste" your solutions into the word or pdf file. Be sure to show how you did your calculations. Also, please be sure to include your name at the top of the first page of your file.
Use appendix a to solve this assignment. Use the ratios used in the appendix