Select 2 companies in the same industry and go to each company’s stock information page on finance.yahoo.com. Use the information stated under “Statistics” to help answer the following questions.

(a) Fill out the following table for both companies 

	Comp 1 name apple	Comp 2 name Microsoft corporation
Brief description of the business
Forward P/E
Forward Annual Dividend Yield
Operating margin

(b) What do these ratios tell you about each company? 

(c) Which one of the two companies would you invest in and why? (State any other information would you require to help you make your decision) 

Answer rating: 100% (QA)

Company 1 Apple Inc Forward PE 2584 Forward annual dividend yield 084 Company 2 Nokia Corporation Forward PE 1767 Forward annual dividend yield 266 b ... View the full answer