Find online the annual 10-K report for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) for 2012. a. Compute Green

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Find online the annual 10-K report for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) for 2012.

a. Compute Green Mountain’s net profit margin, total asset turnover, and equity multiplier.

b. Verify the DuPont Identity for Green Mountain’s ROE.

c. If Green Mountain’s managers wanted to increase its ROE by one percentage point, how much higher would their asset turnover need to be?

Asset Turnover
Asset turnover is sales divided by total assets. Important for comparison over time and to other companies of the same industry. This is a standard business ratio.
DuPont Identity
The DuPont identity is an expression that shows a company's return on equity (ROE) can be represented as a product of three other ratios: the profit margin, the total asset turnover, and the equity multiplier. The formula for the DuPont identity...
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 978-0321818171

2nd Canadian edition

Authors: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo, Jarrad Harford

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