Companies that operate in different industries may have very different financial ratio values. These differences may grow even wider when we compare companies located in different countries.
Compare three leading companies on their current ratio, debt ratio, and times-interest-earned ratio. Compute three ratios for Company F, Company L, and Company V.

Based on your computed ratio values, which company looks the leastrisky?

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Amounts in millions or billions) Company F Company L Income data Total revenues.$9,728 Operating income Interest expense Net inco Company V 17,312 229 29 12 136,377 5,627 687 443 294 Asset and liability data Amounts in millions or billions) Total current assets 147,378 61,153 72,600 110,907 25,024 433 137 5,414 731 2,237 2,310 2 Total current liabilities. Long-term liabilities.. Stockholders' equity 107