This assignment employs this assignment employs accounting principles and relevant business practices to evaluate a company’s performance and financial position through a comparison to industry data.

Locate the Critical Thinking CT 10.4 problem at the end of Chapter 10 in the textbook. This will serve as the structure for your assignment. Begin by choosing two competing publicly traded companies from the list below.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCoWalmart and TargetNike and Adidas

For the pair of companies selected, you will need to use each company’s stock symbol to locate the liquidity, solvency, and profitability ratios on the MSN Money website. As part of your research, you I have to identify each company’s stock symbol for the American market.

Review the competing companies’ ratios provided at the MSN Money website https://www.msn.com/en-us/moneywww.msn.com . Navigate to My Watchlist and enter the company’s name in the Quote Search. Identify and select the correct stock symbol.

Under the “Analysis” heading, use the Growth, Profitability, Price Ratios, Financial Health, Trading Statistics, and Management Effectiveness information to complete a 750-1,000 word comparison addressing the following:

Evaluate each company’s liquidity relative to its competitor using at least three ratiosEvaluate each company’s solvency relative to its competitor using at least two ratiosEvaluate each company’s profitability relative to its competitor using at least three ratios

This assignment should be in the guidelines of the APA Style Guide