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

by David E. Jensen, J. Edward Ketz, Rajib K. Doogar

Whether used as predictors or indicators of stock prices, financial risk, merger candidates, or bond yields, financial ratios have been, and continue to be, a popular tool for analyzing a firm and its performance. Practitioners and academics who employ financial ratios often compare and contrast across several industries, but such evaluations assume that the ratios of one industry measure the same underlying concepts as the ratios of another. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089930463X
• ISBN13: 9780899304632
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.6"