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Amazon.com to Best Buy

Amazon.com, Inc. $($AMZN$)$ is one of the largest Internet retailers in the world. We will use Amazon as a continuing company exercise to reinforce the various tools and techniques for analyzing financial statements. We will begin with the ratio of liabilities to stockholders' equity.

Ratios can be used to compare companies in the same industry. For Amazon, there are a number of competitors that sell media, electronic, and other merchandise. Best Buy, Inc. $($BBY$)$ is one sych company. The following total liabilities and stockholders' equity information $($in millions$)$ is provided for Amazon and Best Buy for the end of a recent year:

$\backslash$table$[[,$Amazon,Best Buy$],[$Total assets,$$420,549,$$$19,067$