A Cross-Industry Analysis of Financial Ratios: Comparabilities and Corporate Performance

This work takes financial ratios, a popular tool for analyzing firms and their performance, and describes the methods that can be used for comparing these ratios across a large number of industries. The authors have assessed seven financial ratios--return on investment, capital intensiveness, inventory intensiveness, financial leverage, receivable intensiveness, short term liquidity, and cash position--in relation to seven main manufacturing and retail industries. The result is a new factor analysis that will allow financial analysts to compare the performances of different types of companies and establish a global view of their relative positions. more

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Posted: Nov-07-2008

Ambitious goal, poor execution

The author's attempt to explain difference in industries by financial ratios was failed.Indeed, he did bring insight in explaining characteristics of different industries and their independences. However, I could not find much insight in the author's methodology. I would suggest the author to...

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