Refer to Simon Company’s financial information in Exercises 13-6 and 13-8. Additional information about the company follows. To help evaluate the company’s profitability, compute and interpret the following ratios for 2018 and 2017: 

(1) Return on common stockholders’ equity—percent rounded to one decimal, 

(2) Price-earnings ratio on December 31—rounded to one decimal, 

(3) Dividend yield—percent rounded to one decimal.

Exercises 13-6

Exercises 13-8

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Common stock market price, December 31, 2018 ... Common stock market price, December 31, 2017 Annual cash dividends per share in 2018.... Annual cash dividends per share in 2017... $30.00 28.00 0.29 0.24