Choose two publicly held manufacturing companies that you are interested in. It would be helpful if you chose two competitors. (For Example, Ford and Tesla, or Coke and Pepsi).

Google their 10-K's or annual report. (These are the annual financial reports that are REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISHED.) For example, if I wanted a recent 10K filing for Walmart, I would Google "Most Recent Walmart 10K." As this was posted, the financials can be found in Item 8 of the table of contents of the 10K report.

1. Name of the two Companies and why you chose them. Also include the ticker symbol for each one.

2. Total Sales (or Total Revenue) for each one (PAY ATTENTION to the denominations on the 10K Income Statement...are they in dollars or thousands of dollars or millions of dollars. MAKE SURE YOU STATE THIS IN YOUR POST.)

3. Total Net Income for each company

4. The total BASIC Earnings per share for each company. You can find this at the bottom of the income statement

5. The total ASSETS for each company. (Balance Sheet)

6. The price of ONE share of stock for each company. You can use any source you like for this. Yahoo Finance is fast -- but do NOT PULL ANY OF THE OTHER DATA from here: just use it for the current market price for one share.

7. If you had the money, would you be interested in investing in the company and/or if you had to make a choice between the two companies, which one would you choose?

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Answer 1 The CocaCola Company and PepsiCo The reason of choosing is because they are w... View the full answer