For this assignment, you will perform ratio analysis in order to compare two companies in the health care industry:
In order to perform this analysis, you will need to select 4 ratios that you would like to evaluate and then find the values of the same 4 ratios for each company. The Internet has a number of websites which provide financial profiles of publically traded companies. Many of these will provide financial ratios that have already been calculated for you. Examples include MSN Money, Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, MarketWatch.com.
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