Compare Amazon com to Best Buy Amazon com Inc AMZN is one of

Last updated: 6/23/2023

Compare 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 such 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 Amazon Best Buy Total assets 64 747 13 519 Total liabilities 51 363 9 141 Total stockholders equity 13 384 4 378 a Compute the ratio of liabilities to stockholders equity for each company Round to two decimal places Liabilities to stockholders equity ratio Amazon 2 087 x Best Buy 4 378 x b Which of the following indicates the level of protection available to creditors 1 The ratio of total liabilities to stockholders equity 2 The ratio of current liabilities to total liabilities 3 The ratio of total liabilities to total assets 4 The ratio of current liabilities to total assets