Analyze a public firm from a financial perspective and give some insights on the financial health of the firm. Choose any public company (i.e. trades on a stock market) and look up their financial statement ratios. Look up their competitors. Give me a very brief overview of what the firm does. Consider one scenario below to give context to your analysis (or another you create).
a. Pretend you are the financial manager… based on the ratios you chose, what is your assessment of the overall firm? Recommend your strengths, weaknesses, where to improve and how to?
b. Pretend that I am an uninformed investor that currently owns 10,000 shares of the company you choose. Then, perform an analysis to give a recommendation to me, the investor, on whether I should buy more shares of this firm or sell the shares I currently own based on your
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